#sermon

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#capital #capital punishment #come #contend #i

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

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

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian #church #faith #gospel #grace

Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit. ↗

— John Bytheway

#faith

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bishop #christ #devil #evangelism #evil

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

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

#before #behave #body #damn #eat

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#had #i #only #preach #pride