Sermon Quotes

A good example is the best sermon. - Benjamin Franklin

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. - Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities. - Dennis Archer

[Weighing the idea, Thompson remembered his mother's response when his father asked what she thought of his sermons after church.] She didn't know the wisdom of opening night... It's the most vulnerable time for an actor. It's not the time to give notes. She was very blunt and more critical than positive. And my father would become beside himself for the rest of the afternoon. - Kent Thompson

[We drove down a few blocks and turned onto Prairie Chapel Road. On the corner was a Lutheran Church with a message board out front encouraging the flock to come out Sunday to show their support for the president and the troops. Jesus said, in the Sermon on the Mount,] Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God... Blessed are the warmongers, for they shall start wars for profit based on lies, and they shall send other people's children to kill and to die, and they shall be called the embarrassing and infrequently mentioned distant cousins in the family of God. - Bible