Top 100 Quotes About Sermons
#1. I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband ... ' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
Vance Havner
#2. This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Otto Schily
#3. The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
#4. Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
David O. McKay
#5. Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
John Wesley
#6. I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive me to my mother's, so I'd be with my grandfather a lot. I used to watch him write his sermons.
Chris Rock
#7. Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior.
Charles Grandison Finney
#8. How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.
Teresa Of Avila
#9. I'm talking about doing something good for mankind. Imagine how awesome everyone would feel if they knew all that holy stuff was real." -Gregori
"Stuff? Four years of giving sermons, and that what I get back? Holy stuff?
Kerrelyn Sparks
#10. So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
Alan Watts
#11. Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.
Andrew Pettegree
#12. He gives very questioning sermons, Bazil. Sometimes I wonder if he's entirely stable, or then again, if he might be simply ... intelligent.
Louise Erdrich
#13. There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
Albert Meltzer
#14. I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.
Al Gore
#15. As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
Curtis Mayfield
#16. It may sound harsh to say, but the number-one contributor to spiritual growth is not sermons, books, or small groups; the number-one contributor to spiritual growth is difficult circumstances.
Kyle Idleman
#17. The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#18. All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.
Max Lucado
#19. It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions,
Bertrand Russell
#20. It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#21. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
#22. Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Harvey Cox
#23. Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.
A. N. Wilson
#25. Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Eugen Herrigel
#26. It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
Lord David Cecil
#27. Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
Spencer W. Kimball
#28. Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.
Will Ferrell
#29. We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
Victor Hugo
#31. You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman
#35. Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.
Matt Prior
#36. The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.
Charles Spurgeon
#37. 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.
William Cobbett
#40. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
A.W. Tozer
#41. Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
Ilana Mercer
#42. The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
C.S. Lewis
#43. The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
David Swing
#44. Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Michel De Montaigne
#45. 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.
Peter J. Leithart
#46. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
Ambrose Bierce
#47. 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.
Hilary Mantel
#48. Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God's love.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
Richard Baxter
#50. It is bad to carry even a good thing too far. Even concerning things such as Buddhism, Buddhist sermons, and moral lessons, talking too much will bring harm.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#51. No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.
Gregory Maguire
#52. I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Malcolm Boyd
#53. Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.
John Angell James
#54. When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
Adam Hamilton
#55. 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.
Anna Julia Cooper
#56. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
Wendell Berry
#57. Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons -
Dan Simmons
#58. When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?
Gloria Gaither
#59. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
George Gordon Byron
#60. Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
Johnny Vegas
#61. I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice.
Orrin Woodward
#63. HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
Ambrose Bierce
#64. The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
J.C. Ryle
#65. Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
George Herbert
#66. Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
Oscar Wilde
#67. Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
George Eliot
#69. Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit.
John Bytheway
#70. When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones
#71. Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.
Louisa May Alcott
#72. The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
Shannon L. Alder
#74. What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
Augustus William Hare
#75. Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.
Calvin Miller
#76. Just because the pastors have preached hundreds of sermons in one place does not give them the liberty of skipping the work of audience analysis for even one single Sunday.
Calvin Miller
#77. Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
Billy Graham
#80. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.
David Platt
#81. You can't build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,
David Brooks
#82. There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.
Anthony Trollope
#84. The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#85. I want to encourage you to reject any form of pump-you-up sermons that are only a veiled way of telling you to die again the death that Jesus died for you. Don't spend time killing off the life Jesus gave you. There's a word for that - Gnosticism
Blaise Foret
#86. You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works.
Donald McCaig
#87. Many use the word "Kingdom" flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives.
Sunday Adelaja
#88. Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees
Joseph Alleine
#89. When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance Havner
#90. The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.
Calvin Miller
#91. It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth.
Frederick William Robertson
#92. Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
Therese Of Lisieux
#93. It's unfortunate that someone can grow up hearing sermons and Sunday school lessons, yet never be captivated by the Scriptures.
Andy Stanley
#95. The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
Keith Miller
#96. Get ready for some more mind-numbing detail that doesn't make for snappy, easy-to-digest sermons.
Ken Wilson
#97. It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. 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
J.C. Ryle
#99. I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.
Michael Emerson
#100. The modern preacher who devotes his energies to church administration, to counseling, and to preaching sermons to people, most of whom have already obeyed the Gospel, has no close parallel in the church of the first century.
Jack P. Lewis
