“What a preacher Augustine became in his passion not to be ‘silent’ about the all-satisfying pleasures at God’s right hand! ‘Can any man say enough when he speaks of you?’ He explained to his own congregation how his preaching came to be: ‘I go to feed [myself] so that I can give you to eat. I am the servant, the bringer of food, not the master of the house. I lay out before you that from which I also draw my life.’ This was his way of study: he sought for soul-food that he might feed himself on God’s ‘holy Delight’ and then feed his people.”
-John Piper, The Legacy of Sovereign Joy (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2000), 68.
