God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.
Preaching
Arthur Wallis
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or cleverness of expression, but operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”
Pete Greig
C. H. Spurgeon, perhaps the greatest preacher of the late-nineteenth century, who spoke to more than ten million people and led the largest independent church in the world at that time, attributed the fruitfulness of his entire ministry to what he called his ‘Boiler Rooms’. These were prayer rooms—often located in the basement of the building in which Spurgeon was speaking—where people would pray as he preached. Like Moses interceding with his hands held aloft by Aaron and Hur, while Joshua overcame the Amalekite armies in the valley below, Spurgeon’s prayer warriors won countless spiritual battles in those boiler rooms while the great preacher fought the earthly battle for souls from the pulpit above.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Dear boy, I should like you to preach, but it is best that you pray. Many a preacher has proved a castaway, but never one person who had truly learned to pray.
(to his 12 year old son – Charles)
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I would say that a “dull preacher” is a contradiction in terms; if he is dull he is not a preacher. He may stand in a pulpit and talk, but he is certainly not a preacher.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I heard one say the other day that a certain preacher had no more gifts for the ministry than an oyster, and in my own judgment this was a slander on the oyster, for that worthy bivalve shows great discretion in his openings, and knows when to close. If some men were sentenced to hear their own sermons, it would be a righteous judgement upon them, and they would soon cry out with Cain, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.”