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• We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.

  David Platt

  Book, Heart, Self

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• Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person.

  Jason Dolley

  Jesus, Biblical, Thinking

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• Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Years, Twenties

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Thinking, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Music, Song, Singing

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• If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Desire, Development

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
  And turn delight into a sacrifice.

  George Herbert

  Sacrifice, Delight, May

  "The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc".

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• And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Laughter, Spring

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Doe, Needs, World

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• I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Christian, Church, Heard

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, Scotch, Canada

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• Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

  Jeremy Collier

  Character, Looks, Flattery

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• the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Art, Class, Fiction

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• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

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• One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Humanity, Church

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• A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

  John Owen

  Men, Soul, Poison

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.76

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• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Soul, Logic

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.21, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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

  Preacher, Word Of God, One Word

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

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• Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

  Charles Spurgeon

  True Or False, Apathy, Care

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• Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

  Aldous Huxley

  Perfectly Good, Bird, Mouths

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Opportunity, Church

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• Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dust, Judging, Important

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• Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Giving, Wish

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came from. So the book [Max on Life] is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Second Chance, Ideas

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

  Edgar Guest

  Motivational, Success, Way

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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