The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.