Image of letters representing quotes

Sermon

Quotes on order

Bring the gospel to life with our extensive collection of sermon quotes. Search by topic (keyword), scripture passage, and more. Looking for a specific author? Learn from the best communicators past and present. Looking for a specific Bible passage? You can search by book and chapter.

Search by topic, scripture, category etc..

Or browse by a list of topics or scripture references

30 Results in 994ms
Display
Sorted By

  • Quote

    Author
    H.H. Farmer
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Genesis 4:1-16 , Jonah 1:3, Proverbs 1:20-33, Acts 9:1-19, Romans 1:18-32, Psalm 1:1-6
    If you go against the grain of the universe, you get splinters.

  • Quote

    Author
    John Calvin
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Exodus 32:, Jeremiah 17:1-4, Exodus 20:3-6, Psalm 115:1-8, Romans 1:21-23, Galatians 4:8-9, Galatians 5:19-21
    Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

  • Quote

    Author
    W. B. Yeats
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Matthew 24:6-8, Isaiah 24:19-20, Judges 21:25, Romans 1:21-22, Luke 2:1-7, Revelation 19:11-16, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
    Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve...

  • Quote

    Author
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Genesis 1:31, Job 12:7-10, Isaiah 55:12-13, Matthew 6:26-29, Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1
    Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will percei...

  • Quote

    Author
    Bruce Demarest
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Romans 1:19, Acts 17:24, Acts 14:15, Acts 14:16, Acts 17:25, Acts 17:26-27, Romans 1:20, Acts 14:17, Romans 1:32, Acts 17:26, Romans 2:15, Romans 2:15-16
    God exists (Ps. 19:1; Rom. 1:19). 2. God is uncreated (Acts 17:24). 3. God is Creator (Acts 14:15). 4. God is Sustainer (Acts 14:16; 17:25). 5. God is universal Lord (Acts 17:24). 6. God is self-suffi...

  • Quote

    Author
    C. S. Lewis
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Romans 1:21-23, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 1:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 22:37-40, Colossians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-21
    [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

  • Quote

    Author
    James K. A. Smith
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Colossians 3:17, Ephesians 2:10, Matthew 5:16, Galatians 2:20, Romans 1:17, James 2:26, Hebrews 111:1
    Faith is a how and, more specifically, a way of living in light of an event.

  • Quote

    Author
    Francis Chan
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Isaiah 40:31, Matthew 17:20, Galatians 2:20, Philippians 4:13, Romans 1:17
    What are you doing right now that requires faith?

  • Quote

    Author
    Augustine of Hippo
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Psalm 148:3-5, Genesis 9:13, Psalm 104:24, Isaiah 40:26, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Romans 1:20
    I asked the earth, I asked the sea and the deeps, among the living animals, the things that creep. I asked the winds that blow, I asked the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars and to all things that...

  • Quote

    Author
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Keywords
    Scripture
    2 Timothy 3:13, Hebrews 3:12-13, Ephesians 4:18-19, Proverbs 5:22, Romans 1:21, Psalm 36:1-2
    Sin is a position which out of itself develops a more and more positive continuity. . . .Sin grows every instant one does not get out of it.

  • Quote

    Author
    Colin E. Gunton
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Genesis 11:1-9 , Exodus 32:1-8, Judges 21:25 , Acts 2:1-11, Romans 1:21-25, Psalm 19:1-4
    An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect a new Babel. 'Postmodernism' represents that Babel perf...

  • Quote

    Author
    Jonathan Swift
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Titus 3:3-5, John 6:44, 2 Timothy 2:25, Romans 1:21, Proverbs 18:2, Acts 17:2-3
    You cannot reason someone out of something he or she was not reasoned into.

  • Quote

    Author
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Scripture
    Jeremiah 17:9, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Colossians 2:8, Romans 1:21-22
    Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth

  • Quote

    Author
    Eugene Peterson
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Ephesians 3:16-17, James 1:2-3, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Galatians 2:20, Romans 1:17
    I want to provide fresh documentation that the only way that any one of us can live at our best is in a life of radical faith in God.

  • Quote

    Author
    Timothy Keller
    Keywords
    Scripture
    John 14:6, Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, Jeremiah 17:5
    Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

  • Quote

    Author
    James Stewart
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Romans 1:16, Acts 4:19-20, 2 Timothy 1:7-8, Matthew 5:14-16, Proverbs 28:1
    Humble and self-forgetting we must be always, but diffident and apologetic about the gospel never.

  • Quote

    Author
    Jonathan Swift
    Keywords
    Scripture
    2 Peter 1:9, Ephesians 4:18, Revelation 3:17, Romans 1:21, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Matthew 15:14
    There's none so blind as they that won't see.

  • Quote

    Author
    Ralph Winter
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Romans 1:21, Ephesians 1:11-12
    The great sin of the world is not that the human race has failed to work for God so as to increase his glory, but that we have failed to delight in God so as to reflect his glory.

  • Quote

    Author
    N. T. Wright
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Ephesians 4:3-6, Romans 9:30-32, Acts 15:7-9, John 10:16, Colossians 3:11, Acts 28:28, Acts 14:27, Ephesians 3:8-10, Romans 3:29, Galatians 3:28, Acts 10:1-48, Romans 15:9-12, Romans 11:11, John 3:16, Luke 13:29, Ephesians 3:6, Romans 1:16, Revelation 7:9
    Paul’s insight that Gentiles are co-heirs, co-members, and co-participants in the gospel is not a mere sociological adjustment—it is a radical theological revelation.

  • Quote

    Author
    Paul E. Little
    Keywords
    Scripture
    James 1:5, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 55:8-9, 1 Corinthians 2:14, John 8:32
    Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

  • Quote

    Author
    Ludwig Feurbach (For Contrast)
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Psalm 24:1, Mark 4:35-41, Colossians 1:16-17, Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1-2
    Nature, the world, has no value, no interest for Christians. The Christian thinks only of himself and the salvation of his soul.

  • Quote

    Author
    Stanley Baldwin
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Mark 11:22-24, Ephesians 2:8-9, Isaiah 26:3-4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 56:3-4, Romans 1:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7
    I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

  • Quote

    Author
    Simone Weil
    Keywords
    Scripture
    2 Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 2:10, Isaiah 6:3, Philippians 2:6-8, Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1
    The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

  • Quote

    Author
    Martin Luther
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Job 28:28, Romans 1:21-22, Ecclesiastes 1:18, Isaiah 5:21, Jeremiah 9:23-24, 1 Corinthians 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-7
    All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

  • Quote

    Author
    Phillip K. Dick
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Jeremiah 10:10, John 8:32, Psalm 119:160, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 40:8
    Reality is what doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.

  • Quote

    Author
    Lillian Daniel
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Psalm 95:4-5, Psalm 19:1-6, Romans 1:20, Psalm 104:24-25
    These people always find God in the sunsets. And in walks on the beach. Sometimes I think these people never leave the beach or the mountains, what with all the communing with God they do on hilltops,...

  • Quote

    Author
    Craig Blomberg
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, Acts 10:34-35, Galatians 3:28, Romans 1:16, John 4:21-24, Psalm 22:27-28
    [Speaking of the early church] A cosmopolitan spirit grew, particularly in the cities, that transcended national barriers. Old tribal distinctions and identities were breaking down, leaving people rip...

  • Quote

    Author
    R. C. Sproul
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Romans 1:18
    The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. Th...

  • Quote

    Author
    Timothy Keller
    Keywords
    Scripture
    John 4:13-14, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Psalm 62:5-6, Jeremiah 2:13, Colossians 3:5, Romans 1:25, Matthew 6:33
    I take a page from Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death and I define sin as building your identity—your self-worth and happiness—on anything other than God. Instead of telling them they are sinning b...

  • Quote

    Author
    Anonymous
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Matthew 13:14-15, Romans 1:19-20, Luke 24:16, 2 Corinthians 4:4
    We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't a fish
Search by Topic

C

S

Search by Reference

Lamentations

Obadiah

Nahum

Haggai

Philemon