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• The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

  Eric Metaxas

  Break Through, Break, Dependent

  Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Prayer, Believe, Religion

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• If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Want, Messages

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.8, Seven Stories Press

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• Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Loyalty, Odds, People

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• It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

  Lord David Cecil

  Reflection, Knows

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• The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Inspirational, Gunpowder, Answers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

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

  Richard Baxter

  Study

  Richard Baxter (1829). “The Reformed Pastor by R. Baxter”, p.102

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Writing, Lazy

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• 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

  Spirit, Moral, Puritan

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.119, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Soul, Glorifying God

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• Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Forever, Priests

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• 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

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214

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• My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

  Arsenio Hall

  Father, Scripture, Firsts

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• I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Stars, Father, Science

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• Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Poverty, Modern, Sermon On The Mount

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

  Arthur Helps

  Time, Play, Long

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.239

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• I write all my sermons.

  Joel Osteen

  Writing

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• A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

  John Ortberg

  Car, Wrecks, Slow Down

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• 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

  Inspiration, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  Vance Havner

  Devil, Preacher, Preparing

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• 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

  Country, Jesus, Past

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• I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Real, People

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2016

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• Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Praying, Ends

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.15

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• The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

  Austin O'Malley

  War, Gunpowder, Monk

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