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| Hemligheten med en god predikan är en god början och ett gott slut och sedan ha dem så nära varandra som möjligt. | George F. Burns (1896-1996) |
| That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone | Gilbert Burnet (1643-) |
| A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. | Ronald Knox (1888-1957) |
| Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better | Austin O'Malley |
| 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 (1896-1996) |
| The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of his neighbors | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. | Frederick Scott Oliver |
| The best sermon is that preached in such human understanding that a hearer can say: "It was preached for me as though I had been alone | Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) |
| The sermon you enjoy most is not likely to be the one that will do you the most good | Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) |
| 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 (1885-1951) |