The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go back and listen to the very first day I went to church. I listen to that sermon all the… — Robert Covington Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!"… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“As Reverend Deal moved into his sermon, the hands of the women unfolded like pairs of raven's wings and flew high above… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The whole of the Sermon [Matt 5-7] is framed within Jesus's announcement that what his fellow Jews had longed for over many… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their… — Frederick William Sanderson Copy Share Image
“One day Bill decided to go into that church. He walked in with no shoes, jeans, a T-shirt, and wild hair. The… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“Proclamation, the preaching of the Gospel, should be central to Christian worship. The sermon is the central dynamic in the worship experience.… — O.S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think? — Serena B. Miller Copy Share Image