Chasms Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

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 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 is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that…

— Marilynne Robinson

A good example is the best sermon.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Example is the best Sermon

— Jezreel Scott

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

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a…

— William Feather

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to…

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Michel de Montaigne