A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“A sermon should be like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.” — J. Golden Kimball Copy Share Image
“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I came to believe that my job was not to receive and critique a sermon but to dig into it, to seize… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me,… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“we eventually have to ask ourselves what did Jesus intend and when do we need to turn the other cheek? If our… — Brian Zahnd Copy Share Image
“The following is one of the oldest sermon illustrations used in the Christian church. It also tests one’s understanding of the Christian… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Did I tell you how much I liked your sermon on Sunday?” “You did not, or I would have remembered it.” “Well,… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“The reality is that Jesus knows exactly how things really are, and in fact he knows how things really are better than… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Some though Dad was irreverent--that he was not respectful enough. Once, a visiting preacher concluded his sermon by yelling to everyone that… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“[Funeral sermon, 02/08/1880] How is it with this young man here? Well, I wish it were otherwise; I wish he had lived… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“I produced a fulsome sermon. When the appointed Sunday arrived, I used all of my best grooming skills. I picked the cat… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached. — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
![“[Funeral sermon, 02/08/1880] How is it with this young man here? Well, I wish it were otherwise; I wish he had lived a very good Saint, which, however, he did not do. We have not come here to indulge in any kind of false sentimentality. He was a drunkard; that is a truth and many of you know it…” quote by John Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/074/john-taylor-11046_funeral_funeral-sermon-02-08-1880-how-is-it-with_2602810.jpg)
