Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon 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
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. — Honore de Balzac 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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the… — Georges Rodenbach 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
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
When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning… — Stanley Hauerwas 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