Sentence examples for make a sermon from inspiring English sources

She and her siblings had grown up with a horror that their father might sometime make a sermon out of the things that they did, or that happened to them.

I love that Marty did not make a sermon about it.

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.

White-washed, evangelical, western "gospel" braided with american exceptionalism looks over my fear and makes a sermon illustration and asks me to tithe.

Any of these themes would make a dandy sermon.

There are exceptions, as when an imam of a mosque in Jaranwala, in the Punjab, issued a fatwa last month against Faraz Javed, who had objected to the imam's making a political sermon during Friday prayers.

I did make a mistake in my sermon.

But for the choir, her version of the sermon will make a pleasant change.

More than 100 years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson reportedly declared during a lecture, "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door". But Emerson was only half right.

A couple of weeks ago he had the temerity to make a passing reference in his sermon at the Queen's diamond jubilee service in St Paul's cathedral to the greed of City bankers and people's unjustified fear of strangers and was immediately pounced upon by the Daily Mail – who else? – for hijacking the ceremony to make "a thinly veiled attack on a huge swath of the public".

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".