Quote by Ken Wilson

“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

“One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.”

— Robert E. Coleman

“Every congregation has four preachers, and they take turns preaching. The sermons are quite lengthy.”

— Ora-Jay Eash

“What we feel and how we feel is far more important than what we think and how we think. Feeling is the stuff of…

— Mark Galli

“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“And so I shall prefer to speak of the continuity or the movement of a sermon, rather than of its outline.”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“There! you will think this a dreadfully preaching letter! I suppose I have a natural tendency to preach just at present because I am…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye's…

— Edgar Guest

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

— Ronald Knox

“Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“The set of outline notes of our poorer sermons, however, will likely reveal that they were shaped by the nature of their substantive content,…

— Eugene L. Lowry