“There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.”
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”
“Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.”
“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”
“Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”