The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.
George F. Burns
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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in K.
Ambrose Bierce
The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it's not about me. It's about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
Frederick Scott Oliver
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
The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
Dwight L. Moody
The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
Robert Bolt
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar Bradley
When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.
John Andrew Holmes
A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon.
Duane Dewel
His sermon struck a pretty deep chord in me. I haven't drunk a drop since, and I've been going to church regularly and praying. The bad dreams are still there, but Jesus helps.
Gary Peabody
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
Edgar A. Guest
I was sitting in this gym, and I was feeling down. But then I remembered that sermon and the things that it stressed. And that gave me my smile back. And I was watching these kids practice, and that gave me my smile.
Zeke Smith
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