Sermon Quotes

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

My dad was a preacher.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

I've been known to preach.

Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.

My parents are ministers.

I stay in church, listening to the Word.

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

1. That no one shall invite another to drink under penalty of 3 sous; 2. That taverns shall be closed during the sermon, under penalty that the tavern -keeper shall pay 3 sous, and whoever may be found therein shall pay the same amount; 3. If anyone be found intoxicated he shall pay for the first offence 3 sous and shall be remanded to the consistory ; for the second offence he shall he held to pay the sum of 6 sous, and for the third 10 sous and be put in prison.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.