1.  A man preacheth that sermon only well to others, which preacheth itself in his own soul…If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.  (John Owen)

2.  The preacher’s job is to preach the faith, not to provide entertainment for unbelievers – in other words, to feed the sheep rather than amuse the goats.  (J.I. Packer, Among God’s Giants, 375)

3.  Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.  (Clovis Chappell)

4.  If you shoot over the heads of your congregation, you don’t prove anything except that you don’t know how to shoot.  (James Denney)

5.  My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.  (John Newton)

6.  Wherever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.’  (John Wilmot)

7.  Much reading and thinking may make a popular minister; but much secret prayer must make a powerful preacher.  (John Berridge)

8.  Our aim is not to preach nicely arranged essays; we have to do with man’s conscience, with heaven and hell, with God and salvation.  (J.H. Evans)

9.  More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.  Preach much on the love of God.  (Spurgeon)

10. I like to lie and soak in my text.  (Spurgeon)

11. Thomas Watson: “Ministers must not only be ‘pastors’ but fighters and warriors. In one hand, they must hold the bread of life and feed the flock of God; in the other hand, they must hold the sword of the spirit and fight against those errors which carry damnation in their front.”