#sermon

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. ↗

— Vance Havner

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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. ↗

— John Hines

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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

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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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. ↗

— David Amram

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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. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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

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