Sermon Writing Quotes

#1. When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

John Ortberg

#2. Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

Alice Walker

#3. It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.

Matt Mullenweg

#5. I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

Philip Pullman

#6. I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

Andrew Scott

#7. It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.

Chelsea Handler

#8. Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Daniel Keyes

#9. Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Carlos Castaneda

#10. It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Ann Brashares

#11. The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. Israel is run by war criminals.

Medea Benjamin

#14. Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

#15. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

E. M. Forster

#16. I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

Vavasor Powell

#17. Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.

Poppet

#18. I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day ...

Robert Frost