Church Quote by George Eliot

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

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

— Max Lucado

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together…

— George Burns

I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the end. That…

— Max Lucado

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

— Wendell Berry

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of…

— Flann O'Brien

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

— Yannis Philippakis

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

— George Herbert

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not…

— Garth Ennis

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

If I had only one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that…

— Charles Spurgeon

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

— Ronald Knox