• 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.

    Harry Emerson Fosdick: 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.
    Lionel Crocker, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “Harry Emerson Fosdick's art of preaching: an anthology”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd