C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Sermon (See Preaching)
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
Luther.
A divine ought to calculate his sermons as an astrologer does his almanac—to the meridian of the place and people where he lives.
Hughes.
Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. The faithful minister avoids such stories whose mention may suggest bad thoughts to the auditors, and will not use a light comparison to make thereof a grave application, for fear lest his poison go further than his antidote.
Fuller.