Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a… — Marilynne Robinson 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
Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted.… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
