A Quote by Salvador de Madariaga

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

Salvador de Madariaga

Quote Topics

Convert More Seldom Sermons Sin Sinners Sometimes Them

Quote Author

Salvador de Madariaga
Spanish - Diplomat
July 23, 1886 - December 14, 1978

Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.

Meister Eckhart

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Thérèse of Lisieux

Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor turn away from them. But they suffered with them, admonished them, comforted them. gave them remedies as sickly members, and did all they could to heal them.

Dorotheus of Gaza

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

George Horace Lorimer

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

William Shakespeare

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

Anton Szandor LaVey

I cant wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert Terminator 2 to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

Evan Goldberg

I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

Evan Goldberg

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

David O. McKay

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Martin Luther

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

Karl Barth

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

Peter Kreeft

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

Kevin DeYoung

Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

Alphonsus Liguori

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

Hans Jonas

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Vance Havner

A Quote by Salvador de Madariaga

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors