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• A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Glasses

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• The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Civilization, World

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  Otto Schily

  Hate, Play, Roles

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• A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

  Arnold Haultain

  Funny, Women, Being A Woman

  Arnold Haultain (2015). “Hints for Lovers: "The Secret Nature and Psychology of Love"”, p.37, eKitap Projesi

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• The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Jesus, Godly

  Dwight L Moody (1941). “Thoughts for the Quiet Hour”, p.19, Moody Publishers

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• It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

  John Lyly

  Ignorance, Bird, Foxes

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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• All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Blessed, Writing, Creativity

  "Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, 1980.

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• And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Hate, Guilt

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• Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Christianity, Judas, Heard

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• If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind Blowing, Hussein

  "Obama cites Scripture to defend policy forcing schools to let boys in girls’ bathrooms" by Ben Johnson, www.lifesitenews.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

  Agnes Repplier

  Art, Doe, Facts

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Agnostic, Convince, Impart

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.143, Courier Dover Publications

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• [Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Eye, Simple

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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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• Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.

  Mary Webb

  Moving, Heart, Voice

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

  Billie Holiday

  Body, Littles, Holding On

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

  Donald Barthelme

  Wine, Class, Whiskey

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• It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Truth, Book, Learning

  "Sermons".

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• I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Religious, Prayer

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• When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.

  Laura Story

  Song, Biblical, Thinking

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Wise, Witty, Business

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• Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"

  John Hagee

  Attitude, Cities, Dirt

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• And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

  John E. Hines

  Prayer, Humility, Forgiving

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• The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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