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«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
«A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.»
«A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.»
«Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.»
«A good example is the best sermon.»
«A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: sermon, verse
«Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Sin | Keywords: minutes, saved, sermon, sinners, twenty
«He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher»
«A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul»
«Come, O Saints, and lead me to my Lord's Embrace. Recite to me the Sermon of my Beloved.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: sermon

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