#sermons

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#god #i #like #make #me

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#achieved #anything #drama #feel #feelings

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

— Johnny Vegas

#been #electric #had #i #priest

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

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ↗

— John Burroughs

#easier #get #moral #more #out

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

#act #being #beings #changing #delivered

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

#convinces #exhortations #impart #nothing #sermons

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. ↗

— Keith Miller

#bible #get #giving #god #good

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ↗

— Harvey Cox

#culturally #discourse #forbidden #forms #last

Despite the damaging effects of mounting criticism, we saw some lovely examples of the triumph of the human spirit. Al’s greatest trouble was accustoming his people to the concept that each had been given at least one gift of the Holy Spirit to be used for ministry in the community. It seemed to be foreign to them. For those who actually experimented with expressing what was locked inside there was delight and fulfillment. ↗

— David R. Mains

#christian-ministry #christian-sermons #experience