Sermon on the mount Quote by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the…

— Oswald Chambers

The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes,…

— Robert McCracken

“I came to believe that my job was not to receive and critique a sermon but to dig into it, to seize its power,…

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

“A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation. It has to be heard in that way. There are three parties to it,…

— Marilynne Robinson

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to…

— Oswald Chambers

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the…

— Oswald Chambers

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

— John Ortberg

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

“I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye's…

— Edgar Guest

“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’ disciples, it…

— Rubel Shelly

A good example is the best sermon.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— George Whitefield