"Prayer may not make you eloquent after the human mode, but it will make you truly so, for you will speak out of the heart; and is not that the meaning of the word eloquence?"
"Paul humbly ascribes whatever he had done or suffered entirely to his Lord."
"The commentators are good instructors, but the Author himself is far better, and prayer makes a direct appeal to him and enlists him in our cause."
“It is your business to preach the gospel to dead sinners, for it is the gospel that makes the dead to live.” — Charles Spurgeon
"Do not be always appealing to the emotions only, but give out also good, sound, strong gospel doctrine,"
"Could God not, if he pleased, convert men without our preaching?"
"You cannot salt your Easter service too much with prayer."
Seriously. You are not the Savior.
"We may preach to others, and yet be ourselves castaways."
"Dear brethren in Christ, if you have to preach God’s word, preach it faithfully, and abate no syllable of its stern threatenings. Woe unto him who is afraid to preach the terrors of the Lord!"
"The way to begin to make a sermon is to bend the knee and to cry to God for direction. That is the first point. Many ministers do not do that."
"There are some brethren who in preaching are as timid as mice; but on a political platform they can roar like lions. Had not they better take to what they like best, and give up the work at which they are not at home?"
