Quotes with sermons

  • No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
  • Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

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  • Henry Giles A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Antonio Vieira Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
    Antonio Vieira
     
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  • Lord George Byron Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Jean Paul No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • John Wesley Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • William Shakespeare Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Martin Luther Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • Carl Honore The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Victor Hugo 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
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Augustus William Hare What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Vance Havner When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, ''Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.'' I said, ''That's where I got my information about hell.''
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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