Air Quote by William Gilmore Simms

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

— William Gilmore Simms

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

— Aldous Huxley

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to…

— Phillips Brooks

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A good example is the best sermon.

— Benjamin Franklin

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even…

— Friedrich Schiller

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Michel de Montaigne

... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure…

— Mary Church Terrell

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

— Bill Bright