Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy.… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus' Sermon… — Jason Dolley Copy Share Image
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon.… — Bill Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image