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«To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers»
«That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone»
Author: Gilbert Burnet
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Sermons
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go away, hastened, hastening, hastens, hearer, hearers, praising, sermon, speaker, talking to, thoughtful
«The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks»
«He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.»
«Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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addresses, affections, captivated, captivates, captivating, eloquence, hearer, hearers, high-pitched, pitch, subduing
«Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.»
«For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; / (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.»
«Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.»
«But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.»
«That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
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admitted, disapprobation, gravest, hearer, hearers, incur
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