Sermon Resources on popular opinion

In March 2009, we received the results from the widest religious survey conducted in the United States, the ARIS (American Religious Identification Survey) study. There is much to gain from this repor...

The person striving for superiority is “always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinion of others ​and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgm...

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Paradox...comes from two ancient Greek words, para meaning “beyond” and doxa meaning “opinion.” Literally, it means “beyond opinion,” but it originally conveyed the sense of “being beyond the pale of ...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely ha...

Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

Loving and forgiving God, we confess that we find it easier to follow the crowd than to follow you. We seek the praise of other humans, rather than seeking to give you joy with our faithfulness. When ...

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. the law is no protection. governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temp...

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

Truth can't be judged on the basis of popularity.