Quote by Eugene L. Lowry

“An effective introduction should accomplish three objectives. It gets attention, it surfaces a need, and it orients the audience to the body of the…

— Haddon W. Robinson

“What we feel and how we feel is far more important than what we think and how we think. Feeling is the stuff of…

— Mark Galli

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

— Lord David Cecil

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

— Eugene L. Lowry

“So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already formed, but…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“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

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

— Eugene L. Lowry

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

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

— Adam Hamilton

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

— Eugene L. Lowry

“Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey.”

— Jane Austen