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• I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Islands, People, Ordinary

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• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Plus, Stuck

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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• It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

  Martin Luther

  Order, People, Church

  "Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

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• Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

  Connie Willis

  Tired, People, Listening

  Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra

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• Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. 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.

  John Selden

  Men, Roots, Tree

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• There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

  Teresa of Avila

  Torture

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

  Fanny Fern

  Sorry, Fighting, Laughing

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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• I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Husband, Father

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• You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Sinner

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees

  Joseph Alleine

  Knees

  Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.24, Digital Puritan Press

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• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Mind, Religion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.218, Penguin

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• I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

  Kim Alexis

  Mom, Book, Phones

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• Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

  Vance Havner

  Fire, Preacher, Ought

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• There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

  Vance Havner

  Names, Sin, Ministers

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• Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.

  John Angell James

  Love Is, Joy, And Love

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 478, 1895.

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• The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

  Austin Phelps

  Intelligent, Simple, House

  Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

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• ... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Kings, Men, Onward And Upward

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• Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

  Theodore Tilton

  Book, Lectures, Journalism

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• ... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mary Church Terrell

  People, Doubt, Matter

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

  William Cobbett

  Religious, Couple, Food

  William Cobbett (2009). “Cottage Economy”, p.84, Applewood Books

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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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• Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

  Wendell Berry

  Best Things

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

  Donald Miller

  Years, Forgiving, Mckinley

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

  Ted Hughes

  Real, Rivers, People

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• In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.

  Mark Driscoll

  Wise, Husband, Book

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson

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