#sermon

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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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

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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

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Vance Havner

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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

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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Joel Osteen

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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

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