Quotes about Sermon

When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to Him,

and He began to teach them, saying:

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,

Moving on from there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then He went up on a mountain and sat down.

Then Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down with His disciples.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.

Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Criticized for including humor in a sermon, Charles Spurgeon, eye twinkling, said: "If only you knew how much I hold back, you would commend me." Later