Judas heard all Christ's sermons.
The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
The sermon begins in the parking lot.
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.
In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.
I write all my sermons.
The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.