Sermon Quotes

187 quotes by 154 authors

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened… — Donald Miller
And that's how we measure out our real respect for peopleâ€”by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry… — Ted Hughes
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making… — Benjamin Franklin
When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that… — Laura Story
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the… — Kim Alexis
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select… — Joan Didion
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy.… — John Piper
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in… — Ira Glass
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it… — Edward McKendree Bounds
My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course. — Adam Hamilton
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever… — John Strachan
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. — George Savile
It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and… — John Lewis
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
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… — John Donne
A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon. — Duane Dewel
I'm so turn off w/ my mothers's sermon grr — Cath Chatto
Being a christian doesn't mean that you must condemn people's religion to glorify Jesus christ, but preaching the gospel and having at the back of… — Michael Bassey Johnson
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. — Ronald Knox

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