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Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
— Richard Baxter
Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
— Agnes Repplier
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
— David Baldacci
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
— Michel De Montaigne
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
— Martin Luther
a sermon was meant to be like a woman's skirt, long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to keep one interested!
— Ashwin Sanghi
Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel
— Trevor Dennis
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
— Gus Van Sant
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
— J.C. Ryle
A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.
— Calvin Miller
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash,Mad and stuff because they don't have cash. — Erick Sermon
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
— Arnold Haultain
If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
— George Bernard Shaw
One decent sermon cannot influence a disoriented person in the same way your consistent presence in her life can.
— Jen Hatmaker
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
— Jerome K. Jerome
If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.
— Charles Spurgeon
You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Prepare the preacher more than you prepare the sermon.
— Timothy J. Keller
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
— George Savile
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
— Joel Osteen
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
— Lincoln Steffens
No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
— Connie Willis
The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.
— Theodore L. Cuyler
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
— Vance Havner
The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.
— J.C. Ryle
Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.
— Calvin Miller
Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.
— Dwight L. Moody
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
— Edgar A. Guest
The pastor makes twenty-fourreferences to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love. — Yrsa Daley-Ward
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.
— Charles Spurgeon
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
— Joseph Goebbels
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
— Francois Rabelais
The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.
— Bill Bright
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
— Douglas MacArthur
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
If he gives you the grace to make you believe, he will give you the grace to live a holy life afterward." (Sermon, "Justification by Grace")
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.
— William Archibald Spooner
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.
— Bruce Van Horn
An army of unemployed led by millionaires quoting the Sermon on the Mount - that is our danger.
— George Orwell
You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.
— George MacDonald
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
— George Whitefield
The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.
— Paul David Washer
Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on vanity.
— Thomas Pynchon
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
— Paul David Tripp
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
— William Jennings Bryan
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
— George Eliot
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
— Michael Eric Dyson
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that a good example is the best sermon.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
...moved by his own sermon.
— John Knowles
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
— John Stott
Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.
— Martin Luther
A Baby Sermon-The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home — George MacDonald
Every living word that gives life was once without form.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
— David Swing
A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get.
— Anthony Trollope
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sermon on the Mount, as taught by Christ and arranged by Matthew, establishes the foundational truths upon which the Kingdom of Heaven is built.
— William S. Stobb
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.
— Timothy Keller
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
— Lord David Cecil
Had dreams of fancy cars and limos,And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo. — Erick Sermon
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
— Phillips Brooks
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
— William Feather
A good example is the best sermon.
— Benjamin Franklin
When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.
— Calvin Miller
