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
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin 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
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
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
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
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze… — Frederick Buechner 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
I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has… — George William Curtis 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
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson 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
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally… — Timothy Keller 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
