Christian Sermon Quotes

#1. I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

Lincoln Steffens

#2. St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

John Strachan

#3. Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

John Owen

#4. All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

Timothy Keller

#5. We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not
sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place*
We must go on or go back. We must be more
Christian or less.

E. Stanley Jones

#6. Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon ... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.

William Barclay

#7. An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse
and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

Sam Harris

#8. A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

J.C. Ryle

#9. Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

Ricky Maye

#10. The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

William Gurnall

#11. The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

Saint Francis De Sales

#12. Your life is your sermon ... Are you a good translation?

Mark Batterson

#13. The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

E. Stanley Jones

#14. Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

Austin Phelps

#15. If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.

Andy Murray

#18. No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Phillips Brooks

#19. Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion ... Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions ... The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

John Adams