“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”
Sinclair Lewis
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McCloskey
“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
“Not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms - capital thing!”
Charles Dickens
“Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.”
Frederick The Great
“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
“I respect the choices you make. I struggle every day to understand them. But I don't presume to judge you, to think it's my right to interfere with your interpretation of your love.”
Carole Migden
