Prayer —secret, fervent, believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness.
– William Carey –
Communication
Prayer is Absolutely Vital – Charles Spurgeon
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
– Charles Spurgeon –
How You Preach Salvation – Billy Sunday
I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it.
– Billy Sunday –
Talking About the First Coming of Christ – Oswald J. Smith
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
– Oswald J. Smith –
Is Your Gospel Touching Others? – Curry R. Blake
If your Gospel isn’t touching others, it hasn’t touched you!
– Curry R. Blake –
True Definition of Preaching – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Any true definition of preaching must say that that man is there to deliver the message of God… He has been sent, he is a commissioned person, and he is standing there as the mouthpiece of God and of Christ to address these people.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
Preaching as a Dying Man to Dying Men – Richard Baxter
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
– Richard Baxter –
A Tongue Like Thunder – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, “Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.”
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Don’t Preach Repentance Unless … – Joseph Parker
The man whose little sermon is “repent” sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—”off with his head!” You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven.
– Joseph Parker –