Inspirational Quotes on Preaching

“Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.”

“I wonder what would happen if the preacher stopped in his sermon next Sunday morning and said, "Have you paid your debts this week?" "In what sort of a temper did you come down to breakfast this morning?”

“Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.”

“A sermon is not like a Chinese firecracker to be fired off for the noise it makes. It is a hunter's gun, and at every discharge he should look to see his game fall.”

“The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.”

“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”

“Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.”

“Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.”

“Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.”

“(The Puritans believed in) the supreme importance of preaching. To the Puritans, the sermon was the liturgical climax of public worship. Nothing, they said, honours God more than the faithful declaration and obedient hearing of His truth. Preaching, under any circumstances, is an act of worship, and must be performed as such. Moreover, preaching is the prime means of grace to the church.”

“Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.”

“We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?”

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by old-fashioned preaching.”

“Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.”

“Preaching is truth set on fire.”

“Preaching is sin's greatest adversary.”

“Preaching is the moral conscience of a nation.”

“Preaching is teaching with a tear in the eye.”

“Lord, help me to preach today as if it were the last sermon I would ever preach.”

“Many men affect to despise fear, and in preaching resent any appeal to it; but not to fear when there is occasion is as great a weakness as to fear unduly without reason. God implanted fear in the soul as truly as He implanted hope or courage.”