Psychology Quote by Eugene L. Lowry

Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was…

— R. C. Sproul

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

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

— Ken Wilson

“If preachers would speak only to men's fancies or understandings, and not meddle too smartly with their hearts, and lives, and carnal interests, the…

— George Virtue

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

— Charles Spurgeon

“A sermonic idea is a homiletical bind; a sermon is a narrative plot!”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“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

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks,…

— Vance Havner

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

“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

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

— Eugene L. Lowry