Pulpit Quotes

113 Pulpit quotes by 92 unique authors

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself… — Charles Spurgeon
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or… — Aldous Huxley
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. — Jean de la Bruyere
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis
No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in… — Thurman Arnold
I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to… — Max Baucus
I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. — Slick Rick
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power… — Vance Havner
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked… — Vance Havner
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F L Lucas
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

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