Our collection of inspiring quotes.
Preachers are the absolute worst people to listen to sermons. So here is the prayer I use to prep myself:
Lord, save me from compare, contrast, critique. Move me from cerebration to celebration. Free me to hear You in and through your messenger today. Amen.
– Leonard Sweet
"I can think of no other time in history where the name of Jesus has been so frequently mentioned and the content of His life and teaching so thoroughly ignored."
- Brennan Manning
"He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."
- John, the Disciple of Jesus
"St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery. Preachers, are you listening? We have for too long ruptured people's minds with facts rather than raptured their souls with mystery."
- Flannery O'Connor
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"We must beware in our attitude toward people who are suffering that we do not blunder by imagining our point of view to be the only one."
- Oswald Chambers, in Baffled to Fight Better
"Everywhere else in the world, loveliness precedes love. Only in the Gospel does love precede loveliness."
- Tullian Tchividjian
