Sermon Quotes

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. (George Burns)
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. View quote
Billie Holiday
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. View quote
Harry S. Truman
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions. View quote
William O. Douglas
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard. View quote
Francis de Sales
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century. View quote
Connie Willis
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly. (Charles Spurgeon)
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. View quote
George Whitefield
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. View quote
Morton Feldman
A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies And turns delight into a sacrifice. View quote
George Herbert
I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. View quote
Mark Twain
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. View quote
Arthur Keith
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. View quote
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. View quote
David Amram
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)
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. View quote
Vance Havner
A good honest and painfull sermon. View quote
Samuel Pepys
The priests have so disfigured the simple religion of Jesus that no one who reads the sophistications they have engrafted on it, from the jargon of Plato, of Aristotle & other mystics, would conceive these could have been fathered on the sublime preacher of the sermon on the mount. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto. View quote
Dorothy Day