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136 Sermons quotes by 112 unique authors
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We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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A good example is the best sermon.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
— C.S. Lewis
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To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
— Lord Byron
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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
— David O. McKay
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the…
— Wendell Berry
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One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can…
— Brandon Sanderson
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True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
— Billy Graham
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...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings…
— John Muir
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
— Wendell Berry
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Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of…
— Lord Byron
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Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a…
— Louisa May Alcott
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In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to…
— Mark Driscoll
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The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
— Donald Barthelme
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It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which…
— Frederick William Robertson
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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
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
— David Novak
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During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in…
— Curtis Mayfield
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people…
— Adam Hamilton
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With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced…
— John Strachan
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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
— George Savile
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HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That…
— Ambrose Bierce
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