Pulpit Quotes

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

— Leonard Ravenhill

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

— J. C. Ryle

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne

— Christopher Love

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

— J. C. Ryle

Those who preach to the choir, only keep the pulpit warm.

— Melchor Lim

The White House is a bully pulpit.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

— Slick Rick

No man is greater than his prayer life.

— 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

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

— Justin Wetch

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

— Bryan Chapell

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

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The pulpit elevates the clergy to a position of prominence. True to its meaning, it puts the preacher at center “stage”—separating and…

— Frank Viola

“Then I thought about my boyhood dreams. Instead of bat in hand at home plate, I had what I now know is…

— Billy Graham

“When I was appointed a member of the Twelve, I said from this pulpit that I would rather have my children enjoy…

— LeGrand Richards

Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out…

— Eric Ludy

A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down…

— Dwight L. Moody

Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and…

— Albert Mohler

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the…

— Donald Wuerl

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

We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I can remember one time a guy told me, a guy that preached, he claimed to be a preacher, he claimed to…

— Tim Conway

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and…

— Jane Austen

I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel…

— Joycelyn Elders

I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the…

— David C. Driskell

“Preachers in the pulpit peddling their wares, while beggars in the street wonder if anyone cares. Teachers in our schools talking bout…

— Eric D. Grizzle

“The Minister’s Burden From the beginning of his ministry to the very end Paul was acutely conscious of the burden that Christ…

— R.C. Sproul

“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one…

— Paris Reidhead

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently…

— Russell Brand

“I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this. Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity,…

— Herman Melville

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

— Jerry Vlasak

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull…

— Ambrose Bierce