Sermons Quotes
Sermons Quote of the day
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.
The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon.
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
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.
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.
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
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.
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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.
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked
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.
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.
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.