From Preacher and Prayer, by E.M. Bounds
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
Prayer is the preacher’s mightiest weapon.
It takes twenty years to make a sermon, because it takes twenty years to make the man.
The real sermon is made in the closet.
Prayer, much prayer, is the price of preaching unction.
Men are God’s method.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.