A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. — Phillips Brooks 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
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many… — Leonard Ravenhill 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
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,… — Sinclair Lewis 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
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
