Writing Sermons Quotes & Sayings

We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic. — Evo Morales

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop — Abraham Lincoln

You don't believe I'm cute enough to rescue? he asked, deadpan. — Lindsay Buroker

Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't. — Leigh Hershkovich

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. — Max Lucado

I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper. — Michel Gondry

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you
you should control them. — Haruki Murakami

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. — Drew Houston

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals. — John Scalzi

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him. — Fulton J. Sheen

I'll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I'm writing all this down. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on matters human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were never spoke before or since and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. — JOHN SCHAFF

We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. — Philip Yancey

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. — John Wesley