Quotes About Sermons

Giving preachers advice on how to prepare sermons is a little like telling them what "their drink" should be at Starbucks.

In fact it was the burning of his sermons, not his arrest, which turned Bhindranwale against his political godfather, Zail Singh, and against Mrs Gandhi.

The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center—their souls—to spiritually and physically respond.

When the invitation came for Graham to return to the Soviet Union two years later in 1984, he would get the chance to lead a crusade through four cities and give twenty-three sermons in twelve days. By then, he knew how to order his steps.

Their sermons help black folk resist the evil seductions of white supremacy. Very few members go away from such homilies without hope for their future or belief in their individual importance. Very few leave without a sense of God's care for their burdens and traumas.

Both ministers said their theology was "love." "Love is the doctrine of our church," said Liz. "Love is the thread of the interconnected web," said Phoebe. Both ministers said they attended all committee meetings and most social justice activities. No wonder these women's sermons were so flat: when did they have the time to read and study, think deeply, and hammer out sentences?

Perry Fitzgerald's sermons were like dharma talks: he spoke as if casually following a train of thought, telling stories, recalling poems, and explicating spiritual and theological concepts as they occurred to him. On the page, however, the skillful construction of this conversational style was obvious.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

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

A church without sermons will soon have a shrivelled mind, then a wayward heart, next an unquiet soul, and finally misdirected strength. A church without sacraments will find its strength cut off, its soul undernourished, its heart prey to conflicting emotions, and its mind engaged in increasingly irrelevant intellectual games.

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

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith.

You will know more of Jesus in one sanctified trial, than in wading through a library of volumes, or listening to a lifetime of sermons.

If I were king of Christianity, after limiting church services to forty-five minutes and sermons to ten, as well as outlawing church "share time" altogether, I would proclaim a kingdom-wide decree that, at least for a while until we get it, "believe" should be stricken from all of our Bibles and replaced with trust.

Statistically, you can take two people, give them the same quantity of God's Word, and the one with the most Christian friends will be the one who's most likely to apply it. So the real question we need to ask ourselves is this, "Are we intimately connected with other people in the body of Christ?" If not, it doesn't matter how many sermons or worship experiences you ingest. You have very low odds of actually changing.