| PREACHING and PREACHERS - Earnestness | 傳道與傳道人 - 認真 |
| Cold preachers make bold sinner. Thomas Adams 冷淡傳道人造出厚顏的罪人。 |
| I preaches as never sure to
preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. Richard Baxter 我每次講道就像不確定還有機會講道一樣，也如同一個垂死的人對同樣垂死的人們講道。 |
| How many souls have been lost for want of
earnestness, want of solemnity, want of love in the preacher, even when the words uttered
were precious and true! Horatius Bonar 縱使宣講的話語是寶貴與真實的，多少靈魂仍因著傳道人缺乏認真、不夠正經及沒有愛心而失落。 |
| Preaching is a spending,
painful work. Thomas Brooks 講道是讓人筋疲力竭、痛苦的工作。 |
| I preached what I did feel, what I smartingly did
feel. John Bunyan 我傳講我感受到的信息，那是我痛苦感受的信息。 |
| If our preaching fails to
catch fire it will hardly warm the hearts of our hearers. Frank Colquhoun 如果我們的宣講無法燃燒起來，那就無法讓我們聽者的心溫暖起來。 |
| Preaching is the emission of the soul's energy
through speech. R. L. Dabney 講道是透過話語散發出靈命的能力。 |
| I go out to preach with two
propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ.
Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine. Jonathan Edwards 當我出去講道時，心裡存著兩個前提。第一，每一個人都應該將他的生命給基督。第二，不管別人給不給，我一定將我的生命給祂。 |
| The preaching that comes from the soul most works on
the soul. Thomas Fuller 從靈魂出來的宣道才能在別人靈魂動工。 |
| The God-sent
evangelist...has nothing in common with the political vote-seeker or entertainer.
Nothing is more contemptible than a religious clown who cavorts between serious truth and
levity. James R. Graham 上帝差派的傳道人...與為選票討好選民的人和藝人截然不同。再沒有比一個跳躍在嚴肅真理與輕浮事物的宗教小丑還令人鄙視的了。 |
| A minister without boldness is like a smooth file. William Gurnall 缺乏勇敢的傳道人就像一把平滑的銼刀。 |
| The Word of God is too
sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with. William Gurnall 若想把上帝話語和講道當成玩具來玩，那上帝的話語實在是太神聖，而講道這件事情也太莊嚴了。 |
| A minister should go to every service as though it
were the first, as though it could be the best, and as though it might be the last. Vance Havner 一個傳道人參加每一次的崇拜都應該把那次的崇拜當成是第一次、最好的一次以及最後一次的崇拜。 |
| If we are not intensely real
we shall be but indifferent preachers. J. A. James 如果我們不是活得萬分真實，我們就會變成冷漠的傳道人。 |
| I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons.
When I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Abraham Lincoln 我不喜歡聽一成不變的講章。當我聽一個人講道時，我喜歡看他像一隻螫人的雄蜂。 |
| Preaching is theology coming
through a man who is on fire. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones 講道就是藉著一個火熱的人傳遞的神學。 |
| I preach as though Christ was crucified yesterday,
rose from the dead today and was coming back tomorrow. Martin Luther 我講道的態度就像是基督昨天被釘在十字架上，今天從死裡復活，明天即將要再來一般。 |
| The best way to revive a
church is to build a fire in the pulpit. D. L. Moody 復興教會的最佳之道就是在講台上生一把火。 |
| A sermon is not made with an eye upon the sermon,
but with both eyes upon the people and all the heart upon God. John Owen 講章不是憑著一隻眼睛就能完成的，而是雙眼注視會眾並全心仰望上帝才能做成。 |
| It is easier thing to bring
our heads to preach than our hearts to preach. John Owen 帶著我們的頭腦講道比帶著我們的心容易。 |
| True preaching is the sweating of blood. Joseph Parker 真正的講道是像奴隸一樣賣命的工作。 |
| If you want to warm a
church, put a stove in the pulpit. J. C. Ryle 如果你想讓教會溫暖，那就在講壇上放個火爐。 |
| That's the best sermon that digged out of a man's
breast. John Trapp 最好的講章是能夠挖出人內心的講章。 |
| I love those that thunder
out the Word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice
can awaken them out of it. George Whitefield 我喜歡上帝話語發出的雷聲。基督徒的世界正深深睡著。只有轟然巨響能夠使他們甦醒過來。 |