Impossible Quote by Norman Vincent Peale

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

— Criss Jami

America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not…

— David Means

“Americans are a strange breed. We love to preach, and we hate being preached at. In one hemisphere of our brains the sermons of…

— Mark Lilla

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

— Alan Dundes

“Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion…

— Jim Cymbala

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

— John Ortberg

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a…

— William Barclay

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

— Saul Bellow

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

— Michel de Montaigne