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