Happiness Quote by Eugene L. Lowry

“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have been attended…

— Jane Austen

“And so I shall prefer to speak of the continuity or the movement of a sermon, rather than of its outline.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

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

— 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

“The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Ken Wilson

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your…

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Lord David Cecil

“It is important to draw out the pastoral consequences of the Council’s teaching, which reflects an ancient conviction of the Church. First, it needs…

— Pope Francis

“I noted a second time appreciation for the author’s making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip service to…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher’s character and a sermon’s reception. If”

— Bryan Chapell

“It is this fulfillment motif that is so critical to interpreting not only the Sermon on the Mount but the larger role of Jesus…

— Rubel Shelly