Everybody sittin in tha pulpit aint saved.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

— Jack Hyles

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

— Edith Hamilton

If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into…

— Mark Twain

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the…

— Matthew Henry

“Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.”

— Iain Sinclair

“What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit…

— Herman Melville

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than…

— John Calvin

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of…

— Horace Mann

It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation…

— Jerry Vlasak

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

— Charles Haddon

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

— Tanith Lee

“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary, which is…

— Thomas Jefferson