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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.


Anna Julia Cooper


#convinces #exhortations #impart #nothing #sermons

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

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

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular for His great Sermon on the Mount, but also merits unpopularity for what He said about His Divinity on the one hand, and divorce, judgment, and hell on the other. This sentimental Christ is patched together with a thousand commonplaces, sustained sometimes by academic etymologists who cannot see the Word for the letters, or distorted beyond personal recognition by a dogmatic principle that anything which is Divine must necessarily be a myth. Without His Cross, He becomes nothing more than a sultry precursor of democracy or a humanitarian who taught brotherhood without tears.


Fulton J. Sheen


#democracy #jesus #secular-humanism #sermon-on-the-mount #the-cross

The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly.


David Holdsworth


#compassion #doctrine #god-s-love #harvest #joy

I write all my sermons.


Joel Osteen


#i write #sermons #write

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.


Thomas Goodwin


#heard #judas #sermons

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.


Mark Twain


#ever #first #minutes #saved #sermon

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.


Ronald Knox


#cover #enough #essentials #good #interest

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.


Voltaire


#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery