Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
“According to Scripture, the trouble with man by nature is not that he is incomplete but that he is dead.” — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but… — Oswald J. Smith 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
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy.… — Kevin DeYoung 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
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey 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
The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it… — Charles Spurgeon 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
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think? — Serena B. Miller Copy Share Image
“Get ready for some more mind-numbing detail that doesn’t make for snappy, easy-to-digest sermons.” — Ken Wilson Copy Share Image
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody 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
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
