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«Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.»
Author: Antonio Vieira
(Diplomat, Missionary, Orator)
| Keywords:
by ear, ears, eyes-only, eyes, get in touch, preach, priests, sermons, The People, touch, touch on, touch up, why
«Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.»
Author: David McKay
| About:
Children,
Influence,
Learning,
Sermons
| Keywords:
influenced, preach, sermons
«It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things until the truth in them becomes yo»
Author: Frederick W. Robertson
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earnestness, frequency, meditate, mix, religious truth, sermons, variety
«Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
preaches, sermons, spark, stone, stones, teaches
«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.»
«I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
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Sermons
| Keywords:
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«Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
(Author, Journalist)
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commercials, make out, product, sermons, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors
«HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered --his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue --itself all coated --uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. --_Biography of Bishop Potter_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Brooks, exempt, exempted, haunt, sermons, stones, The Haunting, tongues