Books Quote by David Swing Download Open image “The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.” — David Swing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Literature Poppies Sermons
Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“A sermonic idea is a homiletical bind; a sermon is a narrative plot!” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can… — David Swing Copy Share Image
The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the… — David Swing Copy Share Image
The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he… — David Swing Copy Share Image
The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all. — David Swing Copy Share Image
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of… — David Swing Copy Share Image
Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition. — David Swing Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
