Children Quote by Gregory Maguire

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

“If cobblers′ kids have no shoes… …then do preachers’ kids have no religion?”

— Sarah Bowen

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

— Anonymous

“we have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

The best sermons are those that are lived.

— Yolanda King

“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with…

— BibleEye

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

— Ken Wilson

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

— J. Oswald Sanders

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

— Charles Spurgeon

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

— George Whitefield