If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. — Norman Vincent Peale 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
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 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
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
“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 minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights… — John Donne Copy Share Image
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the… — Gary David Goldberg Copy Share Image
I do not think of changing the people through my sermons. It is through preparing my sermons that God changes me. The… — Albert Kang 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
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
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
I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what… — Fanny Fern 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
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
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze… — Frederick Buechner 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
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
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
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon.… — Bill Peterson Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“According to Scripture, the trouble with man by nature is not that he is incomplete but that he is dead.” — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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