Sermons Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Eulogy, Warning, Film

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Edgar Guest

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

  Morton Feldman

  Cages, Metaphor, Parables

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Long, Church, Miles

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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

  Church, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
  And turn delight into a sacrifice.

  George Herbert

  Sacrifice, Delight, May

  "The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc".

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• And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Laughter, Spring

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Doe, Needs, World

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• I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Smoking, Cigar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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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

  Preacher, Word Of God, One Word

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Soul, Logic

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.21, Wildside Press LLC

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• We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.

  Roy Kesey

  Ethical Questions, Play, Degrees

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• As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Dark, Men, Artist

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

  Frederick Buechner

  Answers, Might, Form

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Church, Saying Yes

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• 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

  Giving, Black, Speech

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Thinking, My Favorite

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dust, Judging, Important

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• Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Giving, Wish

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came from. So the book [Max on Life] is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Second Chance, Ideas

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Christian, Church, Heard

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

  George Frederick Pentecost

  Soul, Religion, Evangelism

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• If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teacher, Jesus, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.5, Gideon House Books

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