Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side — the "unsearchable riches of Christ" — are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. Here lies the difference between a sermon and a lecture.


The Living of These Days (1956)


A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side — the unsearchable riches of Christ...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side — the unsearchable riches of Christ...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side — the unsearchable riches of Christ...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side — the unsearchable riches of Christ...