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• Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Teacher, Gratitude, Prayer

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• Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Sometimes, Sin, Sinner

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

  Vavasor Powell

  Book, Writing, Thousand

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• In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity - just empty sermons.

  David Stockman

  Wall, Military, Math

  "Paul Ryan's Fairy-Tale Budget Plan". www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up.

  Catherine Booth

  Song, Sweet, Prayer

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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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• 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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• Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music, the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in and practice all of them. But they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest truth is that 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, Believe

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• All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Pastor

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Pity

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Passion, Ideas, Excess

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• How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Too Much, Sin

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Art, Jobs, Faces

  Letter to Zhukovsky on January 1848. "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, p. 49, 1986.

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• Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...

  Henry VIII of England

  Light, Giving, Soul

  "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII" by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, Great Britain. Public Record Office, (vol. XX, part 2, p. 513), 1862.

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• My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Art, Sacrifice

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• While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.

  Timothy Keller

  Lying, Communication, Responsibility

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.11, Penguin

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• We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Multiple Choice, Choices

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.5, Zola Books

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• I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

  Mike Willis

  Song, Shoes, People

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• I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Missing, Gita, Solace

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gita, Formulas, Graphic

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Faces, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Culture, Company Culture, Company

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• Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Matter, Messages

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• Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Reading, Winter

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

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