Before the great revival in Gallneukirchen broke out, Martin Boos spent hours and days and often nights in lonely agonies of intercession. Afterwards, when he preached, his words were as flame, and the hearts of the people as grass.
– DM McIntyre –
Preaching
Holiness of Life – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Reaching Emotions or Conscience – Leonard Ravenhill
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet
reaches your conscience.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Prayer is the Chief Work – Thomas Hooker
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
– Thomas Hooker –
My Greatest Need – Robert Murray McCheyne
Minister of the gospel, say that of your congregation, “The greatest need for my people is my personal holiness.” Teacher
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
Keep Close to My Bible – Charles Spurgeon
I have been called an Arminian Calvinist or a Calvinistic Arminian and I am quite content so long as I can keep close to my Bible. I desire to preach what I find in this Book whether I find it in anybody else’s book or not.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Prayer Life of DL Moody – RA Torrey
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with DL Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.
– RA Torrey –
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 –
A World of Nice People – CS Lewis
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might be even more difficult to save.
– CS Lewis –