Quote by Francis Grierson Download Open image ““Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue.”” — Francis Grierson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Every congregation has four preachers, and they take turns preaching. The sermons are quite lengthy.” — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“A preacher’s job is preaching. So how come he gets to work on the day of rest?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In your sermon manuscript short sentences keep your thoughts from tangling and therefore are easier for you to remember. When you deliver your sermon, you will not concern yourself at all with sentence length, just as you do not think about commas, periods, or exclamation points. As you preach, your words tumble out in long, short, or even broken sentences,… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share
“Work nonstop for forty-eight minutes. When the forty-eight minutes is up, take a break for twelve.” — Brett McKay Copy Share Image
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
