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• True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Song, Writing, Long

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• All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Book, Men, Islands

  1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.

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• A good example is the best sermon.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Example

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

  John Strachan

  Beautiful, Interesting, May

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• I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

  Joel Osteen

  Want, Abundance, Finance

  "Joel Osteen doesn't preach just to the choir". Interview with Jamie Gangel, www.today.com. February 1, 2005.

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• And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Feels, Knows

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• Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

  Gus Van Sant

  Thinking, Cinema, Information

  "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2004.

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• I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

  Michael Eric Dyson

  People, Church, Want

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• It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Spiritual, Giving

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• No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Twenties, Firsts

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• A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Yield, Order, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  People, Complaining, Failing

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• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

  Theodore Bikel

  Advent, Given, Mass

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• The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Depth, Belief

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.32

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• A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

  George MacDonald

  Baby, Stars, Home

  George MacDonald (1871). “Violin songs. Songs of the days and nights. A book of dreams. Roadside poems. Poems for children”, p.252

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• Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Book, Love You

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• She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Passion, Men

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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• The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Who God Is, Ethics, Bases

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• The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

  Garrison Keillor

  Drinking, Years, Two

  Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Army, Action, Truth Is

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• No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Soul, Wonder

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.96, Counterpoint

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• Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Learning, Influence

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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

  Johnny Vegas

  Priests, Electric

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