Quotes about Sermons
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.
- Max Lucado
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.
- Richard Baxter
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
- Richard Baxter
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
- DL Moody
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.
- Victor Hugo
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
- Charles Spurgeon
Sometimes I think Jesus can't wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can't wait to heal people.
- Reinhard Bonnke
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.
- Randy Alcorn
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.
- Alan Hirsch
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
- Oscar Wilde
There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
- JC Ryle