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• There are a lot of homely women in women’s studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches - they’re just mad at the beautiful girls.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

  "Is Male Studies A Sham?" by Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Buddhism, Insecure, People

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• Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2016

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• The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Angel, Laughing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Book, Ministers, Careful

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• A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Long, Doe

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• If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Church, Waste, Wasting Time

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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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• The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

  J. C. Ryle

  Missing, Soul, May

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.354, Editora Dracaena

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• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Delight, Masters

  "Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

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• Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

  Therese of Lisieux

  People, Suffering

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

  Yolanda King

  Lessons

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• Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.

  Jay Adams

  Jesus, Heart, Christ

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• No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Blessing, Land, Political

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.541, Best Books on

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• I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success.

  Griffith John

  Eight, Years, Vision

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• Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Two, Giving

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• People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Teaching, Past

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• And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

  David Livingstone

  Cheer, Promise, Rays

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• Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

  David Baldacci

  Book, Kids, Rocks

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• First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

  John Selden

  Taken, Expression, Roots

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• HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spiritual, Science, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.91, 谷月社

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• It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, History, Individual

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.439, Wildside Press LLC

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• Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

  Aldous Huxley

  Perfectly Good, Bird, Mouths

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Music, Song, Singing

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