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Your Quotes for 9 December 2005 - Sermons

On this day in 1621, Robert Cushman stood up in front of a group of recent arrivals at Plymouth, Massachusetts and preached the first sermon in New England. In my life I've listened to a couple of thousand sermons, read a few dozen, and preached about a dozen and thoroughly agree with all these quotes. Except, perhaps, the Twain entry - I'd change twenty to ten, maybe even less!

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

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.
     - John Burroughs, 1837 - 1921

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon," but "I will do something!"
     - Francis de Sales, 1567 - 1622

The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today.
     - Francis of Assisi, 1182 - 1226

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church ... is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
     - Dwight L. Moody, 1837 - 1899

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

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