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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox

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. — John E. Hines

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. — A.W. Tozer

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha. — Charles Lindbergh

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Ralph W. Sockman

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. — Mignon McLaughlin

Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes. — Calvin Miller

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

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons. — Therese Of Lisieux

The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety. — Calvin Miller

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

Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue. — Francis Grierson

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. — Richard Baxter

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

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

Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior. — Charles Grandison Finney

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

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT — John Paul Warren

He gives very questioning sermons, Bazil. Sometimes I wonder if he's entirely stable, or then again, if he might be simply ... intelligent. — Louise Erdrich

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody

The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. — Ambrose Bierce

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over. — Charles Spurgeon

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. — John Burroughs

Judas heard all Christ's sermons. — Thomas Goodwin

The cow to me is a sermon on pity. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. — George Frederick Pentecost

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons. — Anthony Trollope

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — George Gordon Byron

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

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

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance. — David Novak

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

in a world of groceries and sermons — Sinclair Lewis

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

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. — Theodore Bikel

Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In a digital age, blogs are often more authoritative than sermons. — Michael S. Horton

The sermon begins in the parking lot. — Andy Stanley

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin. — Salvador De Madariaga

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop — Abraham Lincoln

Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons - — Dan Simmons

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

Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees — Joseph Alleine

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. — Martin Luther

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

I have spent half of my life listening to someone else talk about God. Because of this history, I've developed something of an immunity to sermons. — Jen Hatmaker

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce

In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say. — Charles Grandison Finney

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

The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ. — J.C. Ryle

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons — Leonard Ravenhill

It's unfortunate that someone can grow up hearing sermons and Sunday school lessons, yet never be captivated by the Scriptures. — Andy Stanley

Anytime our sermons become confessional, they become more powerful. — Calvin Miller

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

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons! — Henry Ward Beecher

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul. — William Archibald Spooner

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C.S. Lewis

his sermons go on so long that some of the time you feel like begging, "Take me now, Jesus," 'bout halfway through 'em. — Christopher Paul Curtis

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. — David O. McKay

There is no law that sermons shall be the preacher's own, but there is an eternal law against all manner of humbug. Pardon the word. — George MacDonald

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding. — Billy Graham

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

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. — Austin O'Malley

I write all my sermons. — Joel Osteen

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon

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

Christ never preached any funeral sermons. — Dwight L. Moody

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

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. — Al Gore

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

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

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears. — Antonio Vieira

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song. — Spencer W. Kimball

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. — Honore De Balzac

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! — Johnny Vegas

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. — Vance Havner

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived. — Yolanda King

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again. — Chris Hayes

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

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley

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

People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice. — Orrin Woodward

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people. — Leonard Ravenhill

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. — David Swing

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

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners. — George Horace Lorimer

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. — John Wesley

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

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux