#sermon

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. ↗

— John Strachan

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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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