Quotes about Sermons

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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

Many ministers study only to compose their sermons and very little more, when there are so many books to be read and so many matters that we should be acquainted with. In the preparation of our sermons, we are too negligent, gathering only a few bare headings and not considering the most forcible expressions by which we should set them home to men's hearts.

Content not yourselves with being in a state of grace, but be also careful that your graces are kept in vigorous and lively exercise, and that you preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. If

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

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.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Sometimes I think Jesus can't wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can't wait to heal people.

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

C. S. Lewis rightly understood that the purpose of the church was to draw people to Christ and make them like Christ. He said that the church exists for no other purpose. "If the Church is not doing this, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

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

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.