sermon quotes

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.