American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.” — Paul David Tripp 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
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
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
“The same sermon can be preached to the same audience, many times over, in the same manner, and the Holy Spirit can… — Pr. Paddick Van Zyl Copy Share Image
“Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live… — Max Lucado 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
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
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
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
“A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation. It has to be heard in that way. There are three parties… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
“Knowing that the purpose of a sermon is to move people one step deeper into God’s kingdom territory on this journey they’re… — David Schnasa Jacobsen 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
“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
“The irreducible, ultimate element in religious faith is the insistence that we are created things; male and female He created them; without… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
“Hell and damnation! Is that your destiny?" Willow's eyes flew open as she shot out of the church pew. Her voluminous hymnal… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding. I… — Meredith Russo 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
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. — Joel Osteen 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
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. — Ronald Knox 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
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
