Quotes about Sermon
We learn brevity from Jesus. His greatest sermon can be read in eight minutes. His best-known story can be read in ninety seconds. He summarized prayer in five phrases. He silenced accusers with one challenge. He rescued a soul with one sentence. He summarized the Law in three verses and reduced all his teachings to one command. He made his point and went home.
- Max Lucado
The whole page 199 about the apostle Paul, but especially this: All of his words could be reduced to one sentence. We preach Christ crucified (1Cor. 1:23 NIV). It wasn't that he lacked other sermon outlines; it was just than he could not't exhaust the first one.
- Max Lucado
But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.
- Max Lucado
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.
- Beth Moore
Effective preaching must be biblical preaching, whether it is the exposition of a single word in the Bible, a text, or a chapter. The Word is what the Spirit uses.
- Billy Graham
The word repentance is sadly missing today from the average pulpit. It is a very unpopular word. The first sermon Jesus ever preached was "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" [Matthew 4:17 kjv].
- Billy Graham
The Sermon on the Mount is God's formula for revival. The Beatitudes are His recipe for His kingdom to come and His will to be done on the earth as it is in heaven.
- Heidi Baker
The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.
- Charles Spurgeon
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
- Charles Spurgeon
I just love preaching.
- Max Lucado
You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.
- Joyce Meyer
The preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...
- Frederick Buechner