Sermons quotes

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◆ The best sermons are lived, not preached.

- Cowboy Wisdom100

◆ A good example is the best sermon.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon99

◆ This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

- Otto Schily99

◆ The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

- George Savile99

◆ Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

- Antonio Vieira99

◆ Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

- Mignon McLaughlin99

◆ Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

- Harvey Cox99

◆ Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

- Anna Julia Cooper99

◆ Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

- John Burroughs99

◆ I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

- Malcolm Boyd99

◆ One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer99

◆ If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

- Gilbert K Chesterton99

◆ A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon.

- Duane Dewel99

◆ Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after.

- Lord Byron99