1.
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
Therese of Lisieux
4.
Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
Richard Baxter
6.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Michel de Montaigne
7.
Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees
Joseph Alleine
8.
The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.
Yolanda King
10.
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.
Charles Spurgeon
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The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
William Feather
12.
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
Niecy Nash
13.
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Tony Campolo
14.
Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
Johnny Vegas
15.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
Abraham Lincoln
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He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
Martin Luther
18.
Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
Wendell Berry
20.
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.
Teresa of Avila
21.
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
Lord David Cecil
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day
Edgar Guest
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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
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
David Swing
30.
There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
Albert Meltzer