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136 Sermons quotes by 112 unique authors
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Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
— Dwight L. Moody
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One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there…
— Robert H. Schuller
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend…
— Barack Obama
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The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society…
— Barack Obama
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For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only…
— Barack Obama
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One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
— Eugen Herrigel
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If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
— C.S. Lewis
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The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.
— J C Ryle
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All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody…
— J C Ryle
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
— Therese of Lisieux
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The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.
— Yolanda King
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Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus…
— Rick Warren
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...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.
— Gregory Maguire
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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and…
— Aldous Huxley
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Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
— Richard Baxter
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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short…
— Brian D. McLaren
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And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew…
— Lord Byron
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have…
— Oswald J. Smith
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