Sermons Quotations

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.

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.

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.

You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

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.

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

It is a nationwide protest. Prayer leaders in their sermons will condemn the sacrilegious act committed by the Danish cartoonists.

PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. --Judibras

We are able to select great preaching from great preachers. We can control the quality of the sermons by only showing the good ones.

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

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.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

A lot of my writing went into sermons and seminary papers, but I'm beginning to feel the urge again. I need something creative going on in my life.

I like to fight poverty. For almost 10 years, I've been using in my sermons the message that fighting poverty is good business, and I've used Wal-Mart as an example. The question is how do you fight poverty with high wages or low prices? The answer is both.

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

I write all my sermons.

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.