20 Quotes from Famous Preachers
Effective preachers and ministers have a way of touching our souls without saying much. This list of quotes includes gems from well-known preachers and evangelists whose passion for the lost was evident in every sermon they preached. Feel free to use these inspirational quotes in your sermons, lectures, newsletters, and Bible studies.
20 Quotes from Famous Preachers
- “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “It’s not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.” – Vance Havner
- “Faith is to rest, not in the best of God’s servants, but in his unchanging Word.” – Henry Ironside
- “The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God’s law and to show the nature of sin.” – Martin Luther
- “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.” – Billy Sunday
- “God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “Happiness is the level of the soul dependent on outward circumstances, whereas joy is a spiritual quality independent of outward circumstances.” – Chuck Smith
- “The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they need to see.” – G. Campbell Morgan
- “It’s a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher” – George Whitefield
- “It’s a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in hell.” – John R. Rice
- “We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little. Many services, but few conversions; much machinery, but few results.” – R.A. Torrey
- “If you have no joy there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.” – Billy Sunday
- “The scriptures are given not to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.” – Dwight L. Moody
- “Christ is either Lord of all, or he is not Lord at all.” – Hudson Taylor
- “Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.” – Henry Ironside
- “Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian life.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “Nothing is more needed among preachers today than having the courage to shake ourselves free from the trivialities that waste our time and strength, and resolve to continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the Word.” – G. Campbell Morgan
- “Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.” – D. L. Moody
- “We have a God who delights in impossibilities.” – Billy Sunday
- “God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When he wants anything done, he takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves but in God.” – Henry Ironside
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