Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons. — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer… — John E. Hines Copy Share Image
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon. — Duane Dewel Copy Share Image
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application;… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as… — Jan Smuts 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
The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and… — Mary Catherwood 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
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
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus' Sermon… — Jason Dolley Copy Share Image
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
