Heralds of God Quotes

“The Gospel is quite shattering in its realism. It shirks nothing. It never seeks to gloss over the dark perplexities of fate, frustration, sin and death, or to gild unpalatable facts with a coating of pious verbiage or facile consolation. It never side-tracks uncomfortable questions with some naïve and cheerful cliché about providence or progress. It gazes open-eyed at the most menacing and savage circumstance that life can show. It is utterly courageous. Its strength is the complete absence of utopian illusions. It thrusts Golgotha upon men’s vision and bids them look at that. The very last charge which can be brought against the Gospel is that of sentimentality, of blinking the facts. It is devastating in its veracity, and its realism is a consuming fire.”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“There is something wrong if a man, charged with the greatest news in the world, can be listless and frigid and feckless and dull.”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“Never forget as preachers that all around you today are men baffled and tormented by the assault of that fierce ultimate doubt.”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“Refuse to allow any one form of sermon structure to dominate your preaching. In any case, a sermon ought to be a living thing of flesh and blood; do not, therefore, let the bones of the skeleton obtrude themselves unduly. It is the finished building men want to see, not the builder’s scaffolding”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“Gentlemen,” said Spurgeon to his students, “don’t go creeping into your subject, as some swimmers go into the water, first to the ankles, and then to the knees, and then to the waist and shoulders: plunge into it at once over head and ears!”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“Let us give ourselves day by day to prayerful and meditative study of the Word, listening to hear what God the Lord will speak: lest, when we seek to interpret the Scriptures to others, it should have to be said of us, in the words of the Samaritan which were once applied to Robert Southey’s attempt to interpret the life and character of Wesley, “Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep!”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“You are to be the heralds of a religion which once saw the blackest, most desperately unpropitious hour in history—the hour of the crucifying of Jesus—turned into history’s crowning glory and mankind’s brightest hope. Go forth, then, in the heartening assurance that this present cataclysmic hour is alive with spiritual potentialities.”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God

“thrilled”
― James S. Stewart, Heralds of God