Quiet Hints, Chapter 13–"Selfishness”

Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 13, “Selfishness.”

“Thick-witted men occasionally get the notion that they can glorify God by preaching theology and at the same time scorn their congregation.”

“If a minister says he loves God, and in his heart slights or despises his people, he is not only a liar but a murderer of the spiritual life of his parish.”

“The true preacher lives for his people.”

“To persuade a clergyman to forsake his parish the Devil counts his greatest victory.”

“Upon the Lord’s wide work a minister must look with sympathetic eyes, and to many companies of brethren he must give himself as occasion offers with generosity and gladness. But he belongs first of all to his parish.”

“To love his brethren over whom he has been appointed teacher and shepherd, this is the beginning and end of the whole matter.”