(3 quotes found)
“Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.”
John E. Hines
“In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.”
“It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.”