A Quote by George Savile

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

George Savile

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George Savile
English - Politician
July 18, 1726 - January 10, 1784

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

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

Walter Raleigh

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

Emily Dickinson

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

William Feather

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

Niecy Nash

I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.

Billy Graham

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

George Frederick Pentecost

Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

Paul of the Cross

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.

John Strachan

A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

Saint Francis de Sales

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

Lincoln Steffens

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Joel Osteen

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

William Archibald Spooner

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Bill Gates

I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.

Brigham Young

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