Sermon
A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
To tutor; to lecture.
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Sermon Quotations
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
Joel Osteen
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.
Voltaire
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.
Harry S. Truman
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Burns
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Billie Holiday
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
George Whitefield
Sermon Translations
sermon in Dutch is sermoen, kanselrede, preek
sermon in German is Predigt
sermon in Swedish is predikan
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