The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how… — Paul of the Cross 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
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never… — Charles Spurgeon 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
The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from… — Richard Wurmbrand 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
“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
Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson 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
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached. — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something." — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
