There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. — David Platt Copy Share Image
All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music. — Mike Willis Copy Share Image
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — 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
I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons. — Max Lucado 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
I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons. — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer… — John E. Hines Copy Share Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth… It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the… — Gary David Goldberg Copy Share Image
I do not think of changing the people through my sermons. It is through preparing my sermons that God changes me. The… — Albert Kang Copy Share Image
The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow… — Philip Yancey 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
“...I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made… — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
