Great Sermon Quotes

#1. It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

John Lewis

#2. Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community.. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

Bill Peterson

#3. I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

Michael Eric Dyson

#4. 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

#5. The whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

Joshua Harris

#8. Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. He was so handsome she wanted to demand an apology from him.

Tiffany Reisz

#10. I'm only as good as my worst thought toward another.

Kelley Lee McDonald

#11. It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you talk about it. If you criticize this Sermon at any point you are really saying a great deal about yourself.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#12. I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

Dan Buettner

#13. A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.

Paul Jarvis

#14. This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.

Spike Lee

#15. If you are not ready to face opposition then you are not ready to be used by God.

Craig Groeschel

#16. The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#17. Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Meister Eckhart

#18. Because the desire to possess the other is ... love

Gregory Benford

#19. But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.

Bear Grylls

#20. I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

Philip Yancey

#22. Being angry at the mirror won't change what it is reflecting. If you want to SEE something different, BE something different.

Steve Maraboli

#23. Not all design is for the general good.

Paola Antonelli

#24. The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

Douglas MacArthur

#25. There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#26. Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Donald Barthelme

#27. Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

Alan Sugar