I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons. — Max Lucado 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
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer… — John E. Hines Copy Share Image
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same. — Max Lucado 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
First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth… It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I do not think of changing the people through my sermons. It is through preparing my sermons that God changes me. The… — Albert Kang Copy Share Image
“...I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson 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
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Thank God that it is not a matter of intellect, because if the recognition of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
