Pulpit Quotes · Page 3

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

— Ellen G. White

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

— F. L. Lucas

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

— Thomas de Quincey

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.

— Leonard Ravenhill

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

— Max Lucado

“Success in the pulpit can be the force that leads a preacher from prayerful dependence on the Spirit.”

— Bryan Chapell

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

— Vance Havner

The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original…

— Philip Wylie

I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then…

— Omari Hardwick

“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word,…

— G.H. Gerberding

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is…

— Killer Mike

...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the…

— Harold Bloom

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he…

— Henry David Thoreau

I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from…

— Charles Dickens

“man should first feel a serious call to it. Next, he should know that he really possesses the Spirit of God and…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and…

— Bill Vaughan

“We find, therefore, that the pulpit was often made a vehicle for publishing the common news of the day. At a subsequent…

— Thomas Lathbury

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course,…

— Dorothy Day

“The pulpit is beautifully furnished and bright But it's rotted in places not seen by the light”

— Justin Wetch

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

— Edith Hamilton

“He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.”

— Alexander Strauch

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

— Asa Gray

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

— Matt Chandler

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

— John Knox

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

— Billy Graham

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

— James A. Baldwin

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.

— Greg Laurie

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as…

— John Ruskin

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

— Mark Twain

“my only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men”

— Bryce Courtenay

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow