Mark Quote by Vance Havner

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

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

— Lord David Cecil

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

— John Ortberg

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of…

— Charles Spurgeon

“It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will delight your…

— John Chrysostom

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— 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

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best…

— Isaac Mayer Wise

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of…

— Marilynne Robinson