Sermon Quote by Eugene L. Lowry

“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“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

“...moved by his own sermon.”

— John Knowles

“A sermon should be like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.”

— J. Golden Kimball

“The set of outline notes of our poorer sermons, however, will likely reveal that they were shaped by the nature of their substantive content,…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

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

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Get ready for some more mind-numbing detail that doesn’t make for snappy, easy-to-digest sermons.”

— Ken Wilson

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

“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

“Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“We have talked about the manner and mode of preaching, but contextualization also has much to do with the content. A sermon could be…

— Timothy Keller