“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
John Wesley
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.”
George F. Burns
“To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“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.”
Antonio Vieira
“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones
