Quotes About Sermons

In general, I weathered even the worst sermons pretty well. They had the great virtue of causing my mind to wander. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

They weren't telling their congregations that what they were preaching was Unitarianism; they were just omitting from their sermons and services anything that conflicted with Unitarianism, with the idea that if their congregations heard nothing that wasn't Unitarian they would just naturally become Unitarians.

So, what was the reason for the number of biblical citations being so high? Well, it was that most of the biblical citations came from sermons, as Lutz clearly explained:

It seems clear from the wider gospel tradition that Jesus considered love to have hermeneutical precedence in the interpretation of the Torah and to be the lodestar for his own activity,12 and, as T. W. Manson observes, in the oral culture of the day, "the only way of publishing great thoughts was to go on repeating them in talk and sermons."13

Let me advise you, Madam, leave off your damn'd adulterated water, your tea, and take to wine. It will paint your face better than vermilion, and put more honesty in your heart than all the sermons you can read.

The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

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.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

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

Give me a book," she said. "A book of sermons, anything." "What do you want a book for?" "I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose.

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

Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

Study the Speakers, Not the Sermons

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.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

I was well on the way to tacking together a sort of nature religion to make up fro Grandpa's defection, an apotheosis of the back of beyond, in which I was just another thinking thing, neuter, drab, camouflaged. There'd be sermons in stones, and books to read in the haybarn, for ever and ever. Amen.

Anhela alguno de nosotros ayudar a la iglesia de Cristo? Entonces ore pidiendo un gran derramamiento del Espíritu. Solo él puede dar profundidad a los sermones, discernimiento al consejo, poder a la exhortación y derrumbar las altas murallas de los corazones pecadores. No son los sermones mejor elaborados ni los mensajes mejor escritos lo que hoy se necesitan, sino más de la presencia del Espíritu Santo.

that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without

If this is correct, then sermons should target people's thinking as much as their wills and feelings.

What about the New Testament and Jesus's sermons on forgiveness?" "It's not convenient. He also preached love first, tolerance, acceptance, equality. But most Christians I know are quite good at cherry-picking their way through the Holy Scriptures.

full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.