Following my recent post about reading I thought I’d post the following quotes about the subject, all of which come from John Stott’s ‘I Believe in Preaching’.
“None will ever be a good minister of the Word of God unless he is first of all a good scholar.” (John Calvin)
“He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.” (Charles Spurgeon)
“The preacher’s life must be a life of large accumulation…..He must not be always trying to make sermons, but always seeking truth, and out of the truth which he has won the sermons will make themselves….Here is the need of broad and generous culture. Learn to study for the sake of truth, learn to think for the profit and the joy of thinking. Then your sermons shall be like the leaping of a fountain, and not like the pumping of a pump.” (Phillips Brooks)
“If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.” (Donald Grey Barnhouse)
