You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon 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
“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon. — Duane Dewel Copy Share Image
“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
“This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
“His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.” — Jan Karon 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
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
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
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
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a… — Harry S Truman 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
A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“The reality is that Jesus knows exactly how things really are, and in fact he knows how things really are better than… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The sermon was on the subject of Divine Grace, and how we could be saved by it alone, and not through any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
“What we feel and how we feel is far more important than what we think and how we think. Feeling is the… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’… — Rubel Shelly Copy Share Image
“Did I tell you how much I liked your sermon on Sunday?” “You did not, or I would have remembered it.” “Well,… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“As Reverend Deal moved into his sermon, the hands of the women unfolded like pairs of raven's wings and flew high above… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The whole of the Sermon [Matt 5-7] is framed within Jesus's announcement that what his fellow Jews had longed for over many… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Proclamation, the preaching of the Gospel, should be central to Christian worship. The sermon is the central dynamic in the worship experience.… — O.S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their… — Frederick William Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Someone once asked Gandhi for a sermon, and his reply was, “My life is my sermon.” In the same way, we see… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image