It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for… — Wolfgang Schauble 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
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page… — Obert C. Tanner Copy Share Image
With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . — John Muir Copy Share Image
