How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I… — Teresa of Avila 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
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
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
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don't die with the music on your tongue unsung! Don't die with the apps in your mind undesigned! Don't die with the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not… — Frederick Buechner 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
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry,… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The… — Daniel Webster 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
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain 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
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon.… — Bill Peterson Copy Share Image
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our… — Heidi Baker 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
