Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahe...
As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. T...
Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a gen...
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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.
Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
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.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
