Topic(s): Evangelism

• A man’s nose is a prominent feature on his face, but it is possible to make it so large that eyes and mouth, and everything else are thrown into insignificance, and the drawing is a caricature and not a portrait; so certain important doctrines of the Bible can be so proclaimed in excess as to throw the rest of the truth into the shade, and the preaching is no longer the gospel in its natural beauty, but a caricature of the truth.
• A mist in the pulpit does create a fog in the pew.
• I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother. —François Fénelon (1651-1715)
• The Lord’s Sermon on the Mount took only about eighteen minutes to preach.
• Paul’s preaching usually ended in a riot or in a revival. —Orin Philip Gifford
• Speaking the truth is important; speaking the truth in love is all-important. Truth without love can become a bludgeon to beat the heart out of a church.
• The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
• The preacher must have the heart of a lion, the skin of a hippopotamus, the agility of a greyhound, the patience of a donkey, the wisdom of an elephant, the industry of an ant, and as many lives as a cat.
• True eloquence does not consist in speech.... It must consist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. It comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. —Daniel Webster
• His tonus is mono and his tempus is longus.
• I don’t like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.— Abraham Lincoln

“For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” —1 Corinthians 9:16