Sermons Quotes

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

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

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.

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

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

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

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

I write all my sermons.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.