Sermon Quotes
187 quotes by 154 authors
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
— Omar N. Bradley
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
— George Burns
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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
— Tony Campolo
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had…
— John Hagee
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on…
— Billie Holiday
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The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle;…
— Austin Phelps
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Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most…
— Lee Strobel
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an…
— Orison Swett Marden
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You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through…
— Paul of the Cross
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The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
— Francis of Assisi
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The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver…
— Potter Stewart
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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy…
— D. A. Carson
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[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and…
— Martin Luther
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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
— Agnes Repplier
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A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical…
— Harry S. Truman
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If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
— Barack Obama
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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
— John Lyly
Who Wrote These Sermon Quotes
154 authors contributed a total of 187 Sermon Quotes, led by these top contributors: