Ministry

You’ve Got to Have it First – Dwight L. Moody

You’ve got to have fire to set fire with. You’ve got to have life to propagate life with.

– Dwight L. Moody –

Preaching Reality – Thomas Betterton

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

– Thomas Betterton –

Preaching Dullness – PT Forsyth

The cure for dullness in the pulpit is not brilliance but reality.

– PT Forsyth –

Talking About Mighty Deeds – AW Tozer

Where there have been mighty deeds, there need be no multitude of words to tell of them. Many words are required only where the deeds have been too feeble to speak for themselves.

– AW Tozer –

No Substitute for Action – David Livingstone

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

– David Livingstone –

Don’t Lose Jesus – Vance Havner

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God’s name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

– Vance Havner –