Quotes with sermon

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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
    Macys, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Adam Weishaupt But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Harry S. Truman 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.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Edgar A. Guest I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • E. M. Forster Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Vance Havner The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Dwight L. Moody The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Billy Graham The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Keith 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.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Billie Holiday 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.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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