#sermon

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. ↗

— George Burns

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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

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#benefit #chance #could #credit #edit

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#approached #believe #could #country #i

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

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. ↗

— George Whitefield

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#life #lips #preach #sermon #than

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

— Vance Havner

#him #himself #keep #preacher #prepare

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

#effective #even #expects #god #long