A Quote by William Feather

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

William Feather

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William Feather
American - Author
August 25, 1889 - January 7, 1981

Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

Paul of the Cross

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Charles Spurgeon

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

J. C. Ryle

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

Vance Havner

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

Charles Spurgeon

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Charles Spurgeon

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

Gerry Spence

If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

Charles Spurgeon

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

Vance Havner

Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.

Jay Adams

If I had only one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of him.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.