You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon. — Duane Dewel Copy Share Image
“The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course. — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“one day went upon the platform and was ready to deliver a sermon when he heard a swallow singing. "Listen," said he,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, surely, which exhorts us more than this Sermon on the Mount to be what we are meant to be,… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“What we feel and how we feel is far more important than what we think and how we think. Feeling is the… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding. I… — Meredith Russo Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hell and damnation! Is that your destiny?" Willow's eyes flew open as she shot out of the church pew. Her voluminous hymnal… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
“The irreducible, ultimate element in religious faith is the insistence that we are created things; male and female He created them; without… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’… — Rubel Shelly Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image