" In other words, in order to be capable of any power of persuasion, you must be men of ardent and genuine religious affections. You must be men of faith and prayer; you must live near the cross and feel “the powers of the world to come.” We thus learn again the great truth that it is divine grace which makes the true minister. "

― Robert Lewis Dabney , Evangelical Eloquence: A Course of Lectures on Preaching