Simple in your sermons, and other quotes

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“Unless you are simple in your sermons, you will never be understood, and unless you are understood you cannot do good to those who hear you.” -- J. C. Ryle

“If there’s a mist in pulpit, there will be fog in the pews.” -- common saying (has been credited to Charles Spurgeon, Howard Hendricks, Haddon Robinson, David Allen, and others; perhaps said by all and original to none)

“A sermon should be a bullet, not a buckshot.” -- Haddon Robinson

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories.” -- Unknown

“Write as if you were asthmatic or short of breath.” -- J. C. Ryle  

“Does God preserve his word in caves or in churches.” -- Malachi Zhou

“Yesterday is heavy. Put it down.” -- Unknown

“Before the preacher can talk to men about God, he must talk to God about men.” -- Iain R. K. Paisley

“You could as soon fly to heaven astride a straw as get there by your own good works.” -- Iain R. K. Paisley