Sermons Quotes

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

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 were fighting bees.

The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

Grace is all that God is free to do for you, in you, with you and through you only because of the finished work of Jesus Christ.

Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives

Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives.

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?