Sentence examples for better sermon from inspiring English sources

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"I don't know where you guys went last night, but I went somewhere better," Sermon declared, as the van started moving again.

"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door".

Selection among mouse trap patents may be stiffer than among patents in general due to a popular quotation attributed to one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's spring 1871 lectures (Adams 1947): "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse trap, than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door".

Ralph Waldo Emerson supposedly said, “If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.”.

(Admittedly, he gives a better sermon than I would be able to give right now about dealing with fear).

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One observer remarked in 1523 that better sermons could be heard in the inns of Ulm than in its churches, and in Basel in 1524 there were complaints about people preaching from books and pamphlets in the town's taverns.

Would the nation really be better off if they instead spent their time swelling the baying crew in the chamber of hot air?Once upon a time, the good vicar was the one who preached the best sermon.

It was in countless church sermons about better days ahead.

Sermons were better short, he advised (an hour was quite enough), and the best form of prayer was a conversation between priest and congregation, rather than a monologue.

A lesson or sermon should be better when it is not like a speech or oration that a public speaker (such as a politician) might simply read to an audience, unless you are an extremely effective reader.

What's better, the food or the sermons?

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