Top 217 Sermons Quotes & Sayings

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said job creation was automatic. I wish it were true. Just a short while after hearing, from the same preachers, sermons about how globalization and opening up capital markets would bring them unprecedented growth, workers were asked to listen to sermons about "bearing pain." Wages began falling 20 to 30 percent, and unemployment went up by a factor of two, three, four, or ten.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

I write all my sermons.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

Certainly I had from an early age a sense of the power and beauty of religious texts - the awesome magnitude of the Bible stories I was reading as a child. The hymns. The sermons. I can still vividly hear the sermons and the pieces of soft piano music played after them, the preacher asking if anyone wanted to come up to the altar and accept Christ as their savior.

People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

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

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

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.

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

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

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

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

And then my husband works every second weekend, sermons on Sunday, baptising on Saturdays, weddings.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

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

The best sermons are those that are lived.

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.