“If you forget what you meant to say next, do not stop. Nothing is so awkward as a dead pause; and the awkwardness increases in geometric ratio to the seconds of time” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 443).

“My earnest advice to you is that you never make the attempt to extemporize without being sure of your matter. Of all the defects of utterance I have ever known the most serious is having nothing to utter” (Alexander from Thoughts on Preaching, as quoted in Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 442).

“The preacher should be careful of his health, not only on other accounts, but because speaking, real speaking, demands a high degree of nervous energy and power of endurance” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 439).

“Both the beginner in oratory and the experienced ready speaker, must constrain themselves to write, much and carefully” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 435)

“What fits exactly, we repeat, can be easily remembered” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 432).

“You are free to break the rules once the rules have broken you” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 232)

“This exaltation of soul, rising at times to rapture, can never be fitly described; but the speaker who does not in some measure know what it means, was not born to be a speaker” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 428).

“Fanatical or slothful men who say that they never make any preparation, deceive themselves” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 426).