#sermon

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

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#any #been #country #ever #face

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#finances #i #just #money #never

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#almost #completely #could #feel #go

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#grasped #mount #mystery #rejected #sermon

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

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#birth #distracted #ethical #fellow #his

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#form #get #information #modern-day #only

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

#best #better #drunkard #ever #preached

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. ↗

— Otto Schily

#active role #extremism #fanaticism #feeds #hate