Illustrations are like streetlamps, scarcely noticed, but throwing floods of light upon the road.
Illustrations quietly shed great light on truth, like streetlamps on a road.
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
— Edgar Albert Guest
St. Jerome tells us that once when he asked Gregory of Nazianzus for the explanation of a difficult word in St. Luke tha…
— Preaching and Study
A sermon should be persuasive, Bishop Hensley Henson once said. "A good sermon must satisfy four requirements. It must b…
— John Bishop
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed o…
— Dr. Johnson
Consistency is the beauty and ornament, if not the essence of good preaching. This arises from considering the relation …
— Unknown
The great classical composer, Igor Stravinsky, wrote his “Ebony Concerto” expressly for the “Woody Herman Herd,” one of …
— Previn
