#sermons

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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

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.


John Strachan


#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.


Harvey Cox


#culturally #discourse #forbidden #forms #last

Despite the damaging effects of mounting criticism, we saw some lovely examples of the triumph of the human spirit. Al’s greatest trouble was accustoming his people to the concept that each had been given at least one gift of the Holy Spirit to be used for ministry in the community. It seemed to be foreign to them. For those who actually experimented with expressing what was locked inside there was delight and fulfillment.


David R. Mains


#christian-ministry #christian-sermons #experience

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.


Ralph W. Sockman


#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.


William Shakespeare


#books #brooks #everything #exempt #finds

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.


Otto Schily


#active role #extremism #fanaticism #feeds #hate

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.


Abraham Lincoln


#chapel #church #god #preacher #preaching

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.


Thomas Goodwin


#heard #judas #sermons

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