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81 " She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved. "
― Pat Schneider , How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
82 " In his sermon on the baptism of the Spirit, Chamberlain points out Peter's focus in Acts 2. The amazing work of enabling the apostles to speak languages in which they had not been trained drew the attention of the crowd so Peter could address them. No doubt, they wanted an in-depth explanation. But Peter uses this incident to point to Christ and uses the attention he has to fully explain the Gospel – NOT to sensationalize a gift of the Spirit. "
― Daniel Chamberlain
83 " In the heat of the 2000 election, then Governor George W. Bush of Texas made an off-the-cuff statement that we ought to take the log out of our own eye before calling attention to the speck in the eye of our neighbor. The New York Times reported the remark as a minor gaffe -- what it termed " an interesting variation on the saying about the pot and the kettle." The reporter -- actually a fine and balanced journalist -- did not recognize the biblical reference. Neither did his editors. And this, of course, was not an obscure biblical reference. Not only is it found in the red letters of the New Testament, it is taken from the Sermon on the Mount. "
84 " We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. "
85 " If a man write a better book preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor though he build his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door. "
86 " Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. "
87 " The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not What a lovely sermon but I will do something! "
88 " We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. "
89 " I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God. "
90 " I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God. "
91 " The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. "
92 " 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. "
93 " 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. "
94 " I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.' "
95 " Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. "
96 " I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount. "
97 " 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. "
98 " I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. "
99 " You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. "
― Suzanne Woods Fisher , Amish Proverbs: Words of Wisdom from the Simple Life
100 " American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. "
