#sermon

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. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#children #church #employ #every #given

Judas heard all Christ's sermons. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#heard #judas #sermons

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#been #electric #had #i #priest

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon. ↗

— William Feather

#man #minister #preach #preached #sermon

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ever #first #minutes #saved #sermon

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#cover #enough #essentials #good #interest

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

#ears #eyes #heart #know #only

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

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

#because #deficient #domination #dose #inefficient

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#discipleship #sermon-on-the-mount #forgiveness