Sermons Quotes
136 quotes by 114 authors
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the…
— Theodore Bikel
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a…
— John Burroughs
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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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And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
— John E. Hines
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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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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Judas heard all Christ's sermons.
— Thomas Goodwin
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And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more…
— Anthony de Mello
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When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
— Dwight L. Moody
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism…
— Otto Schily
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples…
— Mark Twain
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The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won…
— Eric Metaxas
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and…
— Victor Hugo
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen…
— Sinclair Lewis
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