“If you shoot over the heads of your congregation, you don’t prove anything except that you don’t know how to shoot.” - James Denney
“If it is bad to preach over people’s heads, not to preach to their heads at all is worse.”
- James S. Stewart
“The Christian ministry exists for the promotion of holiness.” – Donald MacLeod
“My grand point in preaching is to break hard hearts, and to heal the broken one.”
- John Newton
“If we can teach Christ to our people, we teach them all.” – Richard Baxter
“There are three particular temptations that assail Christian leaders: the temptation to shine, the temptation to whine and the temptation to recline.” – Anon
“A pleasing preacher is too often an appeasing preacher.” – Anon
“A self-serving minister is one of the most loathsome sights in all the world.”
- Walter J. Chantry”
“It has always been the mark of false prophets and preachers that they preached what people wanted to hear.” - Peter DeJong
“I had rather be fully understood by ten than admired by ten thousand.” – Jonathan Edwards
“Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.” – Vance Havner
“No man ought to be in a Christian pulpit who fears man more than God.” – William Still
“A man cannot really preach until preach he must. If he can do something else, he probably should!” – Vance Havner
“A man should only enter the Christian ministry if he cannot stay out of it.”
- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.”
- A. W. Tozer
“Error in the pulpit is like fire in the hayloft.” - Anon
“Preaching is truth through personality.” – Phillips Brooks
“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” - Richard Baxter
“I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.”
- Jonathan Edwards
“A minister without boldness is like a smooth file.” – William Gurnall
“A minister should go to every service as though it were the first, as though it could be the best, and as though it might be the last.” – Vance Havner
“I preach as though Christ was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today and was coming back tomorrow.” – Martin Luther
“To me, the work of preaching is the highest and greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can be called.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“No man who is full of himself can ever truly preach the Christ who emptied himself.”
- J. Sidlow Baxter
“No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.” – James Denney
“Make sure it is God’s trumpet you are blowing….” - W. Ian Thomas
“We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.” – Richard Baxter
“He will make the best divine that studies on his knees.” – John Flavel
“We should begin to pray before we kneel down and we should not cease when we rise up.”
- C. H. Spurgeon
“A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child and the hide of a rhinoceros. His biggest problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.” – Vance Havner
“If any minister can be satisfied without conversions, he shall have no conversions.”
- C. H. Spurgeon
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