Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!"… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what… — Robin Meyers Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God,"… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
![“I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.” quote by Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c00/oprah-winfrey-186_barack_i-felt-that-it-was-deeply-moving-and-pro_1068232.jpg)
![“Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in…” quote by Robin Meyers](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/021/robin-meyers-111492_believe_consider-this-there-is-not-a-single-word_1139610.jpg)
