Sermon Quotes

We have a 29-year-old woman whose husband does not come to church. She downloads the sermons at home. - Brian Boles

We do not know when he was born, nor exactly when he died. We do not know what he looked like. We cannot visit his home, because it went up in flames long ago. Although he was a preacher, no sermon of his survives. During his lifetime, not a single monument was erected in his honor and, at his death, no carved stone marked his grave. He was -- or so it appeared -- a forgotten man. - Roger Williams

We are together in the fight against terrorism... also give sermons of hate and anger and violence. - Pervez Musharraf

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

We are able to select great preaching from great preachers. We can control the quality of the sermons by only showing the good ones. - Tim Cole

To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world. - Robert Green Ingersoll

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. - Rebecca Harding Davis

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. - AW Tozer

This version of the Bible is important because it's close to the sermonic tradition of Dr. King. This was as close as one could get to the version that I'm told he would have used for the preparation of his sermons. It's a very personal relic, infused with the history of the King family. - Bob Snyder

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. - Otto Schily