Answers Quote by William Gilmore Simms

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth… It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol…

— William Gilmore Simms

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

— Austin O'Malley

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

— Anonymous

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

— J. C. Ryle

... 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

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

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

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still…

— Hal Borland

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

— Jerome K. Jerome

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a…

— Joshua Harris

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he…

— Abraham Lincoln