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• The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

  Yolanda King

  Lessons

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• Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

  Therese of Lisieux

  People, Suffering

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• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Believe

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heaven, Treasure, Earth

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Delight, Masters

  "Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

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• If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Church, Waste, Wasting Time

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• A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Long, Doe

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• Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Book, Ministers, Careful

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• Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2016

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• I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

  Al Gore

  Scary, Asking, Earth

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• ...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Soul, Liberty

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

  J. C. Ryle

  Missing, Soul, May

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.354, Editora Dracaena

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• Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Two, Giving

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• I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success.

  Griffith John

  Eight, Years, Vision

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• All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Thinking, Pastor

  "Preaching on Life". Interview with Michael Duduit, www.preaching.com. May 27, 2011.

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• It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

  Martin Luther

  Should Have, Principles, Three

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

  Max Lucado

  Encouragement, Believe, People

  "Preaching on Life". Interview with Michael Duduit, www.preaching.com. May 27, 2011.

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• Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.

  Jay Adams

  Jesus, Heart, Christ

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• The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Angel, Laughing

  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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• Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!

  Robin Meyers

  Believe, Three, Creeds

  Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Powerful, Burlesque

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

  Austin O'Malley

  Pie

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• The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

  Austin O'Malley

  Spiritual, Half, Causes

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• The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Stupid, May

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.101, e-artnow

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