Sermon Quotes

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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. — Arnold Haultain
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on… — Douglas MacArthur
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. — Jerome K. Jerome
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. — Eric Metaxas
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I… — Kurt Vonnegut
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. — Phillips Brooks
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something." — Saint Francis de Sales
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ'… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of… — Walter Reynolds
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could… — Joseph Stowell
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered. — Robert Green Ingersoll
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the… — Frederick Scott Oliver
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know… — Albert Schweitzer
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci
This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put… — Stanley Hauerwas
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated… — Stanley Hauerwas
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's… — Brian D. McLaren

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