Quotes of Sermon - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ”

- Harvey Cox

“ We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. - Roy L. Smith. ”

- Roy L. Smith

“ 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

“ The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. ”

- George Burns

“ One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ”

- Ronald Knox

“ If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. ”

- George F. Pentecost

“ A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. ”

- John Cage

“ I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off. ”

- Sir Arnold Lunn

“ I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ”

- Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

“ A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. ”

- Lord Byron

“ When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ”

- Ralph W. Sockman

“ An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. ”

- Unknown

“ An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. ”

- Unknown

“ Do as we say, and not as we do. ”

- Giovanni Boccaccio

“ When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. ”

- Henry George

“ People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. ”

- Billie Holiday

“ They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first born — ah! ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. ”

- Bible

“ Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. ”

- Bible

“ Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ”

- Edmund Burke
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