Sermons Quotes

Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

— Anonymous

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

— William Gilmore Simms

The best sermons are those that are lived.

— Yolanda King

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“in a world of groceries and sermons”

— Sinclair Lewis

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

— Dwight L. Moody

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

— Edgar Guest

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

— Phillips Brooks

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

— Anonymous

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

— Francois Rabelais

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

— Francois Rabelais

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

— George Herbert

Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation…

— Martin Lindstrom

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a…

— Abhijit Naskar

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best…

— Charles Spurgeon

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

— Anonymous

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are…

— Alan Watts

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

— Charles Spurgeon

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet,…

— Shannon L. Alder

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think…

— Max Lucado

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

“The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability…

— Shannon L. Alder

Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you…

— Max Lucado

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

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's…

— Rick Warren

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me…

— Gerry Spence

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.…

— David Platt

“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to…

— Robertson Davies

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

What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not…

— Frederick Buechner

“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none…

— Charles Spalding Thomas

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