Germany Quote by Thomas de Quincey

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word, and never…

— G.H. Gerberding

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Richard Cecil

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

— Albert Mohler

And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for…

— John Stott

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become…

— Louisa May Alcott

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip…

— George Eliot

One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication,…

— Robert H. Schuller

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.

— Greg Laurie

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

— Mark Twain