Sermons Quotes - Page 14

• The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

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• A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spiritual, Engineering, Riches

  Lionel Crocker, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “Harry Emerson Fosdick's art of preaching: an anthology”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

  George William Curtis

  Faith, Peace, Heart

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• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta

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• Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could fit into our "buddy system." The way we talk about Him, the way we pray, and, more strikingly, the way we live shows that we have somehow lost our sense of being appropriately awestruck in the presence of a holy and all-powerful God. It's been a long time since we've heard a good sermon on the "fear of God." If God were to show up visibly, many of us think we'd run up to Him and high-five Him for the good things He has done.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Powerful

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• 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.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Song, Sweet

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Real, Feelings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Long, People

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• This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!  It’s that simple. We simply have to stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Hate, Heart

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• The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount.  I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Following Christ, People

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• The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jesus, Selfish, Ungrateful

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• Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Support, Argument, Proof

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• We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

  David Platt

  Book, Grace, Centering

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• The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Girl, Phones, Differences

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• You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Mouths, Christ

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• Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teaching, Men, Giving

  "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount".

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• Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Heart, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Parables”

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• If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

  Chris Hayes

  Law, Want, Torture

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• The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Ministers, Should

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.810

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• The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.

  Jan Smuts

  Spiritual, Climbing, Law

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• Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hypocrisy, Preacher, One Thing

  "The Essays of Michel de Montaigne".

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• Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?

  Serena B. Miller

  Powerful, Thinking, Service To Others

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• Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Shots, Certain, Heresy

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• If I had only one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Regret, Thinking

  "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".

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• The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—‘off with his head!’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven

  Joseph Parker

  Men, Heaven, Challenges

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