Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.