“ If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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.". ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
- 936
“ The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
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“ When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches. ”
- John Andrew Holmes- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. ”
- Rowan Atkinson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I don't want to just accumulate a succession of impactful images. I'm always interested in storytelling. ”
- Michel Gondry- Copy
- 610
“ Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. ”
- Edward Moore- Copy
- 912
“ Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. ”
- John Flavel- Copy
- 165
“ Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
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“ You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.1K
“ One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ”
- Harvey Cox- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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- Copy
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