Sermon Quotes

187 quotes by 154 authors

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. — John Ortberg
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. — Vance Havner
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed… — Arsenio Hall
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern… — William Wilson Morgan
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. — George Bernard Shaw
Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored… — Gerry Spence
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church. — Lincoln Steffens
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. — George Frederick Pentecost
If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But… — Oswald Chambers
Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the… — Theophan the Recluse
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God. — Francois Rabelais
[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains… — Hal Borland
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion — Austin O'Malley
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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 is not too… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. — Norman Vincent Peale
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights… — Barack Obama
I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring… — Brigham Young

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