Hypocrisy Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

“The same sermon can be preached to the same audience, many times over, in the same manner, and the Holy Spirit can change it…

— Pr. Paddick Van Zyl

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do”

— John Selden

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 sermon is one side of a passionate conversation. It has to be heard in that way. There are three parties to it,…

— Marilynne Robinson

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

— Gary Rossington

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we…

— Vance Havner

“No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher’s character and a sermon’s reception. If”

— Bryan Chapell

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

— Lord David Cecil

“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, ‘What a lovely sermon!’ but ‘I will do something.’” — Billy…

— Ken Hensley

“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?”

— Eugene L. Lowry