Quotes about Delivery

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Every kind of integralism, open or disguised, is contrary in principle to true catholicity, which can win to itself and comprise all things only if it delivers itself up and dies like the seed to rise again.

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need. We go to a local branch office and direct the clerk (sometimes called a pastor) to fill out our order for God. Then we go home and wait for God to be delivered to us according to the specifications that we have set down. But that is not the way it works. And if we thought about it for two consecutive minutes, we would not want it to work that way.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

After a short labor, and without too much pain (I decided that the pain of delivery was overrated), my son was born.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.