Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what… — Robin Meyers Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!"… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy.… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think? — Serena B. Miller Copy Share Image
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image