The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.