Preaching Skills Quotes

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

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

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.