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“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born under the covenant of works, flies directly to a covenant of works again. And as Adam and Eve hid themselvesâ€� and sewed fig leavesâ€� so the poor sinner, when awakened, flies to his duties and to his performances, to hide himself from God, and goes to patch up a righteousness of his own. Says he, I will be mighty good now–I will reform–I will do all I can; and then certainly Jesus Christ will have mercy on me.”
― George Whitefield, The Method of Grace. a Sermon, Preached on Sabbath Morning, September 13th, 1741. in the High-Church-Yard of Glasgow, ... by ... George Whitefield.

“Jesus is the perfect name!
He who put away his fame!
And persecuted in shame!
That you will never be the same!
It's because of you and I He came!
Believe him or have yourself to blame!
In the book of life, have your name!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around.”
― Billy Sunday

“It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Kind of Preaching God Blesses

“The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.”
― Gerhard Ebeling

“No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Kind of Preaching God Blesses

“Music in the church ought to be much more than an emotional stimulant. In fact, this means music and preaching should have the same aim. Both properly pertain to the proclamation of God's Word. Preaching is properly seen as an aspect of or worship. And conversely, music is properly seen as an aspect of the ministry of the Word, just like preaching. Therefore the songwriter ought to be skilled in Scripture and as concerned for theological precision as the preacher. Even more so, because the songs he writes are likely to be sung again and again (unlike a sermon that is preached only once).”
― John MacArthur, Fool's Gold?: Discerning Truth in an Age of Error

“An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.”
― Amit Kalantri

“My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.”
― Matt Chandler

“I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.”
― Vavasor Powell

“It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that we have not a clue to the meaning of some biblical passage, or that we have no sense of a satisfying ending for a sermon, or that we are unsure of precisely what the congregation ought to do after hearing a given text. The most ethically dangerous time within a sermon is toward the end of the sermon, when we move from proclamation to application and act as if we know more than God. 133”
― William H. Willimon, Calling & Character: Virtues Of The Ordained Life

“A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly; Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person’s emotional center—their souls—to spiritually and physically respond.”
― Matthew Paul Turner, Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity

“Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the life-blood of God's nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon the man. Man has sinned and missed a great blessing. If man wants to retrieve his immense loss he must act thus and so. But the Gospel of Christ is very different. It begins with God and His glory. It tells men that they have offended a holy God, who will by no means pass by sin. It reminds sinners that the only hope of salvation is to be found in the grace and power of this same God. Christ's Gospel sends men to beg pardon of the Holy One.”
― Walter Chantry

“Proclamation, the preaching of the Gospel, should be central to Christian worship. The sermon is the central dynamic in the worship experience. It is the fulcrum upon which the entire service of worship hinges. Everything that comes before it should point to it, and everything that comes after it should issue out of it. Because of this, the pastor is the worship leader of the church. In too many places and in too many circumstances, worship is only identified with something we do before the sermon. That is, we think the worship leader is one who leads choruses or spiritual songs. The dynamic of the worship experience is a complete package, and it is the sermon, the preaching of the Gospel, that must be central to it. It is the poastor himself who sets the tone for worship.”
― O.S. Hawkins

“Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.”
― Colin S. Smith, Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

“No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.”
― Elizabeth Johnston

“The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.”
― Steven J. Lawson, The Kind of Preaching God Blesses

“Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhausâ€� (lit. “mouth houseâ€� or "speech houseâ€�) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lectureâ€� of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus of “the serviceâ€�. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn't read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others because it’s so boring. Might traditional, so-called-inspired preaching still be the best way to communicate God’s Word?â€� ~ © gfp '42â„�”
― Gary Patton

“Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.”
― Matthew Paul Turner, Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity

“When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.”
― Olabisi Obideyi, It's Time to be a Church Without Walls