I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and… — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another… — Hans von Storch 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
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As to secrets, Father, I have but one: if the congregation expects a sermon of forty minutes’ length, then give them one… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only… — Antonio Vieira Copy Share Image
Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“There is a joy possible in this life, he [the apostle John] says. Your joy can be full in this world, and… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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