Charles Spurgeon Quotes

No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.

If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

That which fires youth, generally rings true.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

People are attracted to confidence and a commitment to ideas, no matter what those ideas are. People can gravitate towards something being said passionately or violently or expressively.

There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.