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.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

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.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

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

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.