Sermons Quotes · Page 4

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

— Austin O'Malley

The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never…

— Charles Spurgeon

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

— George Horace Lorimer

Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed…

— J. C. Ryle

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

— Morton Feldman

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

— Niecy Nash

I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in…

— Max Lucado

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

— Richard Baxter

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I'm thinking, "What difference will this sermon make in their lives tomorrow? What am I trying to give them that will make…

— Max Lucado

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never…

— Adrian Desmond

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

— Jeremy Taylor

The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

— Austin O'Malley

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

— Leonard Ravenhill

“Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared…

— Emily Dickinson

Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?

— Serena B. Miller

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

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

— Agnes Repplier

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be…

— Herbert Spencer

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

— Max Lucado

Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I…

— Brian D. McLaren