I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron 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
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 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
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
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
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
The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker. — Bill Bright 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 don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,'… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Thank God that it is not a matter of intellect, because if the recognition of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to… — Robertson Davies 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
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
