Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. — David Platt 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
“I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
