Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Of all the sermons that I heard at church growing up, I can’t remember a single message that was preached in any… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful,… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A boring sermon is boring because it fails to bring the truth into the listeners’ daily life and world. It does not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster 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
“As long, therefore, as I am surrounded by danger and the uncertainty of death, so long must I believe in Christ, my… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Someone once asked Gandhi for a sermon, and his reply was, “My life is my sermon.” In the same way, we see… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on… — Kelefa Sanneh Copy Share Image
“A truly evangelical sermon must be like offering a child a fine red apple or offering a thirsty man a cool glass… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.” — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert Copy Share Image
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the… — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image