Books Quote by Matt Prior Download Open image “Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.” — Matt Prior ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Draws Example Failing Failure Good examples Sermons Tales
“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 Copy Share Image
“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have been attended… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
I help people with not just the 'what' but the 'how' and tailor for individual needs — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
