The Art of Illustration Quotes

“If you find any difficulty in illustrating your subject, I should strongly recommend you to try to teach children whenever you can get an opportunity of doing so. I do not know a better way of schooling your own mind to the use of illustrations than frequently to take a class in the Sunday-school, or to give addresses to the scholars as often as you can;”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“No illustrations are half so telling as those which are taken from familiar objects.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“every sermon, full of Christ, that we preach, rolls away some of the mists and fogs from the surface of the planet; at any rate, morally and spiritually, if not naturally.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“So creation, providence, and history are all books which God has written for those to read who have eyes, written for those who have ears to hear his voice in them, written even for carnal men to read, that they may see something of God therein.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“It is not sufficient for us to maintain our public reputation among our fellow-creatures, for our God can see in the wall; he notices our coldness in the closet of communion, and he perceives our faults and failures in the family.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“Examples are more powerful than precepts; hence I quote them.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“Hence it is that a great scholar was wont to say, 'Lord, give me learning enough, that I may preach plain enough.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“He wrote wisely who said, "The world below me is a glass in which I may see the world above.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration

“There should, if possible, be at least one good metaphor in the shortest address;”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration