No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know… — Sydney J. Harris 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
Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the… — George Frederick Pentecost 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
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
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 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
And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
