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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?
My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
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.
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home
Usually in church, when the congregation is overcome by the Holy Spirit for a moment, the people will interrupt the sermon to yell their praises, and dance for joy.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.
The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
