Dead people Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little…

— Allan Dare Pearce

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

— Ora-Jay Eash

For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so…

— Gilbert Tennent

“We expect brilliance from the pulpit, but often accept mediocrity in our souls.”

— Barna Group

“The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do…

— John William Fletcher

“One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.”

— Deitrich Bonhoeffer

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

— Vance Havner

“Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.”

— Iain Sinclair

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

— Martin Luther

“His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.”

— Jan Karon