Offense Quote by George Whitefield

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them…

— Anonymous

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

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

— John Ortberg

“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It is more…

— Jane Austen

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a…

— William Barclay

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

“If preachers would speak only to men's fancies or understandings, and not meddle too smartly with their hearts, and lives, and carnal interests, the…

— George Virtue

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants…

— Serj Tankian

“It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you talk about…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will delight your…

— John Chrysostom

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

— Honore de Balzac