In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps 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
I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's… — Spike Lee 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 basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“As to secrets, Father, I have but one: if the congregation expects a sermon of forty minutes’ length, then give them one… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image