“He will preach best who loves most. His preaching will go most to the heart, and will be attended with most of the ‘demonstration of the Spirit’ who, in all he says and does, is most constrained by the love of Christ, dictating, animating, sanctifying, with tenderness and patient earnestness of his Master’s mind, his whole discourse. Oh, that we were more earnest to grow in this grace!”
-Charles P. McIlvaine, Preaching Christ: An Address to Those Entering the Christian Ministry (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2003; first published 1863), 64.
