Sermon Quotes
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A good sermon should be like a woman`s skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Ronald Knox
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Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
John E. Hines
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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
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That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone
Gilbert Burnet
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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 F. Burns
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The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, `What a lovely sermon!` but `I will do something.`
Billy Graham
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[Working with Alan Alda] If I wanted a sermon I`d go to church. He just wouldn`t quit. He just kept adding more speeches and more moralistic stuff. After he got famous, he got really pompous. He started thinking he was speaking God`s words - not the lines...
Jamie Farr
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At first I would get mail saying, `Oh, you must be a Christian because the movie [Groundhog Day (1993)] so beautifully expresses Christian belief.` Then rabbis started calling from all over, saying they were preaching the film as their next sermon. And th...
Harold Ramis
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I`m not preaching a sermon from the mount, you know. This is just my own opinion. But it does seem to me that when our industry got vulgar and cheap, we began losing our regular customers. Sure, people are curious, and they`ll go see any provocative thing...
John Wayne
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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
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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Alex Mosson
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Andrew Hebard
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Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Alexis Waggoner
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Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Alexis Waggoner
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It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
Alex Okosi
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In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
David Amram
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I`ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
Joel Osteen
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I contend that it`s impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Andrew Greeley
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Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
Alan Levy
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A good sermon should be like a woman`s skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Andre Lewis
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[Britt was so taken aback by Morgan`s fiery sermon-songs that he immediately insisted on including frequent collaborator (as part of the Sylk 130 collective) Tim Motzer in the songwriting and production process. Motzer owns 1K Recordings and has played wi...
King Britt
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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
