Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart."
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Yolanda King
Activist
"The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop"
Martin Luther
Theologian
"He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them."
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"Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin."
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"Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go."
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"The cow to me is a sermon on pity."
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"A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat."
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