Quote by Hilary Mantel Download Open image ““This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.”” — Hilary Mantel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.” — Tim Keller Copy Share Image
“His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“A sermonic idea is a homiletical bind; a sermon is a narrative plot!” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Every congregation has four preachers, and they take turns preaching. The sermons are quite lengthy.” — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding. I looked up… — Meredith Russo Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
