Sermon Length Quotes

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.