A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders Quotes

“Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years – for a lifetime!”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“There might even be the sound of the gospel, but it seemed to contain no glad tidings at all. It did not come from warm lips to startled ears as the message of eternal life – the glorious gospel of the blessed God (1 Timothy 1:11). Men lived, but their minister never asked them whether they were born again!”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“Living in fellowship with a living Savior is what transforms us into His image and fits us for being able and successful ministers of the gospel. Without this, nothing else will profit. Not orthodoxy, or learning, or eloquence, or power of argument, or zeal, or fervor will accomplish anything without this. This is what gives power to our words and persuasiveness to our arguments, making them as either the balm of Gilead to the wounded spirit or sharp arrows of the mighty to the conscience of the stouthearted rebel.”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“Without this, nothing else will profit. Not orthodoxy, or learning, or eloquence, or power of argument, or zeal, or fervor will accomplish anything without this. This is what gives power to our words and persuasiveness to our arguments, making them as either the balm of Gilead to the wounded spirit or sharp arrows of the mighty to the conscience of the stouthearted rebel.”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“Devotion,” said Bishop Hall, “is the life of religion, the very soul of piety, the highest employment of grace.” It is much to be feared that “we are weak in the pulpit because we are weak in the closet.”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“How could you speak of life and death with such a heart? How could you preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner? Do you believe what you say? Are you in earnest or in jest? How can you tell people that sin is such a thing, and that so much misery is upon them and before them and not be more affected with it? Shouldn’t you weep over such a people, and shouldn’t your tears interrupt your words?”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“The question, therefore, which each of us has to answer to his own conscience is, Has it been the purpose of my ministry and the desire of my heart to save the lost and guide the saved? Is this my aim in every sermon I preach and in every visit I make? Is it under the influence of this feeling that I continually live and walk and speak? Do I pray and toil and fast and weep for this? Do I spend and am I spent for this, counting it, next to the salvation of my own soul, my greatest joy to be the instrument of saving others?”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“How much more would a few good and fervent men effect in the ministry than a multitude of lukewarm ones!” said Oecolampadius, the German Reformer”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“A man may be free from all scandal in either creed or conduct but may be a most grievous obstruction in the way of all spiritual good to his people. He may be a dry and empty cistern in spite of his orthodoxy. He may be freezing or blasting life at the very time he is speaking of the way of life. He may be repelling men from the cross even when he is proclaiming it in words. He may be standing between his flock and the blessing even when he is outwardly lifting up his hand to bless them.”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“How many souls have been lost for lack of earnestness, solemnity, and love in the preacher, even when the words uttered were precious and true!”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider

“Study the Speakers, Not the Sermons”
― Horatius Bonar, A Word to Fellow Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Things Every Minister of the Gospel Must Consider