Sermons sayings

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◆ To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

- AW Tozer99

◆ A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

- Henry Giles99

◆ A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

- Ronald Knox99

◆ The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

- George F Burns99

◆ Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

- David McKay99

◆ A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick99

◆ That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone

- Gilbert Burnet99

◆ I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

- Sinclair Lewis99

◆ 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 Oliver99

◆ The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'

- Billy Graham99

◆ When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

- James Earl Jones99