If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached. — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner Copy Share Image
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley 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
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
It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and… — Otto Schily 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
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
“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
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,'… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image