--COLTON.
PREACHING.--That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go
away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes
them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.--BURNET.
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing
than loathing.--NATHANIEL EMMONS.
A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing without
taking the life.--FENELON.
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but
by the men they make.--JOSEPH COOK.
The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean
when in it.--CECIL.
I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.
--BAXTER.
Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look
not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people,
of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching,
should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors,
then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to
the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and
Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.--LUTHER.
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be
put into a sermon as what is.--CECIL.
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age,
sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the
same key.
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