“A good honest and painfull sermon.”
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) English naval administrator and member of parliament
March 17, 1661
"Painful" here means "painstakingly written".
Diary
“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)
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