"If you could see nuns making sermons.
"So long as the Supreme Court is making sermons, the government can ignore it," Mr. Sattar said.
Trollope's people are all doing things that are small: getting on committees, making sermons, writing to newspapers, finding misplaced checks.
There is no vestige of the melodramatic devices of Sardou and Pinero that inform the other comedies, and none of the dark moral retribution that ultimately makes sermons of even "Salome" and "Dorian Gray".
Just over two years later, he invited Mr. Wright to speak at his presidential announcement but withdrew the invitation at the last moment for fear of controversy over statements Mr. Wright had made in sermons, according to an interview last year with Mr. Wright.
With his wife dead and his surviving children often demanding his attention, with his mind set on questions of faith but also filled with the business of a large and difficult job, with memories of his past "sinfulness" informing his ideas about true religion, he contained in himself the same mass of opposites that made his sermons so exceptional.
He had made his sermon general enough to please everyone — when I talked to Salafis at Aziz Bellah, they believed that the sheikh supported their cause.
A less exact and intelligent writer might have made a sermon out of these facts and traded on our smug assumption that somehow our racism is cleaner than that of our grandfathers.
Once joining our organization for free -- as a religious organization we cannot even charge dues -- the only activities they would be "monitoring" would be our Friday sermons and prayer services, for which our sermon-givers openly sign-up and often even make their sermons available online.
Although many of his friends suggested that he should publish these sermons, Swift felt that he lacked the talent as a preacher to make his sermons worthy of publication.
And if Rabbis would limit their sermons to fifteen minutes and make the sermon more of a discussion, congregants would not mind staying longer because they would be engaged by the ideas.
