Brevity Quote by George Burns

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as…

— George Burns

“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

“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

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

— Eugene L. Lowry

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

— Eugene L. Lowry

“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

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of…

— Marilynne Robinson

“One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.”

— Robert E. Coleman

“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