When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what… — Robin Meyers Copy Share Image
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps 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
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart. — John Stott 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
If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our… — Louis Farrakhan 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
I have some friends whose sermons are extremely practical - so practical that I can put them right to use. I'm trying… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to… — Robertson Davies 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
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass 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
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
“Thank God that it is not a matter of intellect, because if the recognition of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones 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