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• All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Believe, Simple

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.33, Whitaker House

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• There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Real, Spirit, Holy

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• Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Example, Remember, Poor Richard

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.177, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

  Francis of Assisi

  Volunteer, Deeds, May

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• A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

  J. I. Packer

  Simple, Spirit, Holy

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.54, InterVarsity Press

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• The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.

  Mary Catherwood

  Prayer, Catholic, Church

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• A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

  Harry S. Truman

  Integrity, Needs, Code Of Ethics

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

  George Burns

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Principles, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Psychology of Redemption: Making All Things New”, p.37, Discovery House

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• If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Lasts

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• Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Light, Giving

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• The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Code Of Ethics, Christianity, Founding Fathers Religion

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Servant Of God, Religion

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• Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Artist, Sky

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• Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says 'Blessed are the . . . . merciful, peacmakers', and so on, he doesn't just mean that they themselves are blessed. He means that the blessing of God's kingdom works precisely through those people into the wider world. That is how God's kingdom comes. That's one thing to hear afresh.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Blessed, Mean

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Adversity, Jewels

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

  William Feather

  Men, Ministers

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Thinking, Long

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations”, p.11, Zondervan

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• No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

  John Stott

  Heart, Men, Doe

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• The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

  David Swing

  Literature, Poppies

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• The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Air, Gunpowder, Answers

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

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• The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Years, Next Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

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• Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Dying, Saint

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• I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Theatre, Example, Lines

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