Man with BiblePhillips Brooks, in his Lectures on Preaching, said a powerful statement that should be tattooed on the minds of all those who approach the pulit:

“If you are afraid of men and a slave to their opinions, go and do something else. Go and make shoes to fit them. Go even and paint pictures which you know are bad but which suit their bad taste. But do not keep on all your life preaching sermons which shall say not what God sent you to declare, but what they hire you to say.”[1]

[1] Phillips Brooks, Lectures on Preaching (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1877), p. 59.

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