Ambitious Quote by Fred W. Friendly

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

— Martin Luther

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

— Christopher Love

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

— Will Durant

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

— Theodore Parker

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

— Horace Greeley

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

“I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all, and above all, so that God Himself and I, the…

— Charles River Editors

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

— Bryan Chapell

“All pulpits must passionately declare Christ to be the eternal Son of the living God, the only Savior of sinners. All preaching must boldly…

— Steven J. Lawson

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or…

— Thomas Carlyle

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

— Richard Cecil