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
What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon 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
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution. — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a… — Anonymous 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
If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
