homiletical as the question sounds, it is worth asking.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
These words, which we treat, almost unconsciously, as the exaggeration of homiletical appeal, state no more than the sober possibility, the experience attained by many a Christian in circumstances of the greatest suffering and deprivation.
"The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians"
G. G. Findlay
The story is then tediously related, and we end by a few ethical considerations, taken out of the footnotes of the Cambridge Bible for Schools or homiletical Hints, which make even the most ardent Christian feel that after all the pursuit of perfection is a very dreary business.
"The Upton Letters"
Arthur Christopher Benson