Quotes about Preaching
There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.
— William Barclay
About 1369 Wickliffe began to preach the faith in England, and his preaching and writings were the means of the conversion of great numbers, many of whom became excellent preachers; and a work was begun which afterwards spread in England, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, Switzerland, and many other places. John Huss and Jerom of Prague, preached boldly and successfully in Bohemia, and the adjacent parts.
— William Carey
About the year 1743, Mr. David Brainerd was sent a missionary to some more Indians, where he preached, and prayed, and after some time an extraordinary work of conversion was wrought, and wonderful success attended his ministry.
— William Carey
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
— Martin Luther
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
— Alistair Begg
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
— Charles Spurgeon
God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
— John Piper
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.
— Charles Spurgeon
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
— JC Ryle
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
— Charles Spurgeon
If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.
— DL Moody
I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.
— Greg Laurie