“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think? — Serena B. Miller Copy Share Image
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. — Rose Philippine Duchesne 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
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
“Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I came to believe that my job was not to receive and critique a sermon but to dig into it, to seize… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me,… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“one day went upon the platform and was ready to deliver a sermon when he heard a swallow singing. "Listen," said he,… — Kaiten Nukariya 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 produced a fulsome sermon. When the appointed Sunday arrived, I used all of my best grooming skills. I picked the cat… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up… — Garrison Keillor 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
“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
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“[Funeral sermon, 02/08/1880] How is it with this young man here? Well, I wish it were otherwise; I wish he had lived… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. — William Jennings Bryan 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
My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course. — Adam Hamilton 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
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
![“one day went upon the platform and was ready to deliver a sermon when he heard a swallow singing. "Listen," said he, "that small bird preaches the essential doctrine and proclaims the eternal truth." Then he went back to his room, giving no sermon.[FN#135]” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/kaiten-nukariya-793_truth_one-day-went-upon-the-platform-and-was-r_2053194.jpg)
![“The whole of the Sermon [Matt 5-7] is framed within Jesus's announcement that what his fellow Jews had longed for over many generations was now at last coming to pass - but that new kingdom didn't look like they had thought it would. Indeed, in some ways it went in exactly the other direction. No…” quote by N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e3/n-t-wright-1173_creator-god_the-whole-of-the-sermon-matt-5-7-is-fram_511367.png)
![“[Funeral sermon, 02/08/1880] How is it with this young man here? Well, I wish it were otherwise; I wish he had lived a very good Saint, which, however, he did not do. We have not come here to indulge in any kind of false sentimentality. He was a drunkard; that is a truth and many of you know it…” quote by John Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/074/john-taylor-11046_funeral_funeral-sermon-02-08-1880-how-is-it-with_2602810.jpg)
