Sermon Quotes - page 4

It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility. (J. Oswald Sanders)
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. View quote
Gus Van Sant
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. View quote
John Piper
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. View quote
Clayton Christensen
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. View quote
John Ortberg
It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something. View quote
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
What really got under Londa's skin, I soon learned, was not the Messiah's sermon per se but the discontinuity between its sublime directives and the ignominious course of Western history, a spectacle that, the more we thought about it, increasingly struck Londa and me as largely a fancy-dress danse macabre, Titus Andronicus on a hemispheric and ultimately global scale, though I hastened to point out that the chronicles of other civilizations were likewise awash in blood. What had gone wrong? She wanted to know. When and why had the teachings of Jesus Christ become an optional component of Christianity? View quote
James K. Morrow
Her libido blazed to life. She smiled, impressed by the party-crashing shamelessness of sex, its willingness to show up anywhere-a funeral, a sermon, a final farewell. This was the way to go out, all right, thumbing your labia at the cosmos. View quote
James K. Morrow
The Sermon on the Mount-it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek. View quote
James K. Morrow
146. A good Example is the best Sermon. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. (Arnold Haultain)
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first. View quote
Arsenio Hall
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. View quote
Dan Wakefield
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. View quote
Frederick Scott Oliver
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. View quote
Jason Dolley
I'd sit on logs like pulpits listen to the sermon of sparrows and find god in Simplicity, there amongst the dandelion and thorn. View quote
Jewel
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. View quote
Joel Osteen
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. View quote
John Strachan
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ. View quote
Joshua Harris
I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself. View quote
Kim Alexis
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church. (Lincoln Steffens)
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. View quote
John Hines
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.' View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
A hopeful growing believer is a walking sermon. He preaches far more than I do, for he preaches all the week round, shaming the unconverted, sharpening the converted, showing to all what grace can do. View quote
J. C. Ryle
The masters of the universe of Silicon Valley did not, as promised, bring us new-age tranquility, but rather only greater speed and intensity to do what we always do. Trolling, doxing, and phishing were just new versions of what Jesus warned about in the Sermon on the Mount. Spiritual transcendence is the timeless water of life; technology is simply the delivery pump. We confused the two. That water can be delivered ever more rapidly does not mean it ever changes its essence. High tech has become the great delusion. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson