[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount… — Hal Borland 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
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came… — Max Lucado 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
I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted.… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
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
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Remember when you got into the word and it wasn’t because you had a sermon to prepare or you needed to learn… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama 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
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so… — George MacDonald 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
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
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
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
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however… — Andy Murray 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
I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God,"… — Martin Luther 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
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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