Atheism Quote by Emily Dickinson

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors…

— J. C. Ryle

“But it will not be so at their last meeting at the day of judgment; sinners, when they shall meet their minister before their…

— Jonathan Edwards

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary…

— John Muir

If I only had one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that…

— Charles Spurgeon

“I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just for her.…

— Janice Thompson

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

— John Adams

“Ministers, who now often meet their people to preach to ’em the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, to convince ’em that there is a…

— Jonathan Edwards

“is a great vexation to the spirits of good ministers to see people deaf to all the fair warnings given them, and running headlong…

— Matthew Henry

“I recalled a sermon Burke had delivered months ago, when everything from the Jew hole was still safely abstract, wisdom I could enjoy in…

— Ben Marcus

“He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the imagination with…

— Georges Rodenbach