Sermon Quotes

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

— William Gilmore Simms

Example is the best Sermon

— Jezreel Scott

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

— David Swing

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“...moved by his own sermon.”

— John Knowles

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

— Edgar Guest

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

— Andy Stanley

“Yesterday’s snow job becomes today’s sermon.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon

— Mark Twain

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

— Joseph Brodsky

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

— Anonymous

“Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.”

— Jan Karon

“The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.”

— Barack Obama

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

— Gus Van Sant

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful,…

— Stellan Skarsgard

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if…

— Anna Quindlen

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best…

— Charles Spurgeon

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

— Criss Jami

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

— Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached…

— Harry S Truman

“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“A boring sermon is boring because it fails to bring the truth into the listeners’ daily life and world. It does not…

— Timothy Keller

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that…

— Billy Graham

“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

“As I read out the text, through a half-opened window near me, two large withered oak-leaves silently floated into the little church…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared…

— Emily Dickinson

“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

“Some though Dad was irreverent--that he was not respectful enough. Once, a visiting preacher concluded his sermon by yelling to everyone that…

— Andy Andrews

“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

“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

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The following is one of the oldest sermon illustrations used in the Christian church. It also tests one’s understanding of the Christian…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“Did I tell you how much I liked your sermon on Sunday?” “You did not, or I would have remembered it.” “Well,…

— Jan Karon

“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding. I…

— Meredith Russo