Break Quote by Charles Spurgeon

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of…

— Marilynne Robinson

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

— John Ortberg

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them…

— Anonymous

“True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.”

— Chan Kilgore

“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It is more…

— Jane Austen

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

— George Whitefield

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than…

— John Calvin

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how…

— Vance Havner

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that…

— Marilynne Robinson

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

— Eric Metaxas

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

— Thomas Brooks