Sermons Quotes - Page 16

• The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Ministers, Should

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.810

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• Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

  Austin Phelps

  Christian, Prayer, Book

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• It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Long

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Mind, Clients

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Sorry

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• Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

  Ilana Mercer

  Yarn, Acting, Hollywood

  "2 Movie Gems Amid A Lot Of Hollywood Hooey". www.wnd.com. July 06, 2007.

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• The sermon begins in the parking lot.

  Andy Stanley

  Parking, Parking Lot

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.77, Zondervan

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• Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Arrows, People

  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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• A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Beginning Middle And End, Execution

  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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• I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sleep, Comfort, Hearing

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• To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Healthy, May

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• And in thy own sermon, thou
  That the sparrow falls dost allow,
  It shall not cause me any alarm;
  For neither so comes the bird to harm,
  Seeing our Father, thou hast said,
  Is by the sparrow's dying bed;
  Therefore it is a blessed place,
  And the sparrow in high grace.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Blessed, Fall

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.549, e-artnow

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• Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

  Charles Lamb

  Queens, Book, Reading

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• Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

  Martin Luther

  Color, Choices, Simplicity

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• Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

  Phillips Brooks

  Scripture, Argument, Conviction

  Phillips Brooks (1964). “On Preaching”

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• The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Intelligent, Men, Atheism

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1988). “Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961”, p.84, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Gun, Battle

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Memories, Heart, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 373, 1895.

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• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patience, Lying, Blow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

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• The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stars, Rain, Flames

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.425

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

  Brigham Young

  Beautiful, Sweet, Rain

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.222

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• It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their experience. It is to me one of the best sermons to hear men and women relate to each other how the Lord has wrought upon their understanding, and brought them into the path of truth, life, and salvation.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Yield, Interesting

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.89

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