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
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“...I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only… — Antonio Vieira Copy Share Image
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music. — Mike Willis Copy Share Image
