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Pulpit Quotes by Mark Twain
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It…
- It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering…
- Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
- I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
- Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly…
More Pulpit Quotes
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. — Edmund Burke
- I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. — Jeb Bush
- The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by… — Charles Eliot Norton
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as… — John Ruskin
- Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let… — Abraham Lincoln
- I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. — John Knox
- Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die… — Matthew Henry
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain