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It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty Sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.
— John Flavel, p. 476. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,the more because they preach in vain, Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after.
Rochdale— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto 2, stanza178.
Through the pages of [her book] Lay Sermons walk the great. I don't say that Margot Asquith actually permits us to rub elbows with them ourselves, but she willingly shows us her own elbow, which has been, so to say, honed on the mighty.
Margot Asquith— Dorothy Parker, ibid.
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 178.
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 1, line 17.
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy Sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
edward mckendree bounds— Power Through Prayer
Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your Sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...
King Henry VIII— Last speech to parliament, December 24, 1545. [1]
— See also: Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, vol. XX, part 2, p. 513. [2]
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without Sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.
Martin Luther— In Luther, Hartmann Grisar, 1915, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, vol. 4, p. 126, (referencing, the Corpus Reformatorum, vol. 4, 737-740. [28]) [29] [30]
Wordsworth went to the lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the Sermons he had already hidden there.
william wordsworth— Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying ([1889] 2004) p. 10.
Step right up young lady Your two hundred birthdays make you old if not senile And we see the symptoms there in your rigor mortis smile With your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint While the pirates own the flag and sell us Sermons on restraint.
harry chapin— There Only Was One Choice
The greatest Sermons are the ones given with a closed mouth and an open heart.
steve maraboli— p. 135 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and Sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
ilana mercer— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
England can never repay you You gave your life to be buried alongside The place you loved The Sermons attended when you were young Still echo round these churchyard walls
colin moulding— "In Loving Memory Of A Name"
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their Sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
john muir— pages 271-284 (at pages 282-283)
At dinner we talked of Newman, whose Dream of Gerontius Gladstone puts very high, so high that he speaks of it in the same breath with the Divina Commedia. At length he asked, "Which of his writings will be read in a hundred years?" "Well," said Henry Smith, "certainly his hymn, 'Lead kindly Light,' and 'The Parting of Friends,' the sermon he preached before leaving Littlemore." "I go further," said Gladstone. "I think all his parochial Sermons will be read."
M. E. Grant Duff— Notes from a Diary, 1851-1901: 1873-1881 (1898), p. 140.
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to Sermons.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 6 (Barchester Towers (1857))
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have Sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes. This style is necessary in order to save many of this people.
Brigham Young— Journal of Discourses 3:222 (March 2, 1856)
Few things surpass old wine, and they may preach who please, the more because they preach in vain. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 178.
Resort to Sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
George Herbert— George Herbert, The Temple (1633), The Church Porch, Stanza 69.
To preach practical Sermons as they are called, that is, Sermons upon virtues and vices, without inculcating those great Scripture truths of redemption, grace, etc., which alone can incite and enable us to forsake sin and follow after righteousness, what is it but to put. together the wheels, and set the hands of a watch, forgetting the spring, which is to make them all go?
— Bishop Horne, p. 480. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
If the truth were known, many Sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
— George F. Pentecost, p. 481. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic Sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate" upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.
— Austin Phelps, p. 478. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The great bell of Moscow is too large to be hung, the question arises, what was the use of making it? Some preachers are so learned that they cannot make themselves understood, or else cannot bring their minds to preach plain, gospel Sermons; here, too, the same question might be asked.
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 482. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of Sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
lady mary wortley montagu— Poem (October, 1736).
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and Sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.
— "2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
He bought a Bible of the new translation, And in his life he show'd great reformation; He walkèd mannerly and talked meekly; He heard three lectures and two Sermons weekly; He vow'd to shun all companions unruly, And in his speech he used no oath but "truly;" And zealously to keep the Sabbath's rest.
— Sir John Harrington, Of a Precise Tailor.
It’s the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, which wants to make all Puritan litanies, all moral Sermons, and petty bourgeois respectability sound out of tune.
— Nietzsche (1886) Beyond Good and Evil, I. Johnston, trans., § 216
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy, and love, is the end of hearing Sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence, and oratory.
— John Angell James, p. 478. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
