Pulpit Quotes

113 quotes by 92 authors

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian… — Edmund Burke
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. — John Grisham
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. — William Weld
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee
The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it. — Martyn
From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the… — Paul Billheimer
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. — Mark Twain
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. — Oliver Goldsmith
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. — Horace Greeley
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress — Wendell Phillips
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! — Theodore Roosevelt
Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are… — Albert Mohler
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take… — John Angell James
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,… — C.S. Lewis
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any… — Herman Melville
My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base… — Joel Osteen
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be… — Eugene H. Peterson

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