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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. -- Edmund Burke
I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. -- Slick Rick
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. -- Ellen G. White
If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew. -- Billy Graham
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell. -- Jimmy Swaggart
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. -- Hector Hugh Munro
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, where it is out of place. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home. -- J. C. Ryle
Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew. -- Jack Hyles
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit. -- J. C. Ryle
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne -- Christopher Love
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. -- John Knox
If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong. -- Matt Chandler
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress -- Wendell Phillips
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman. -- John Owen
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it. -- Matthew Henry
There is nothing mysterious about the principles of the gospel. We have studied them in the scriptures, we have discussed them in Sunday School, and we have heard them from the pulpit many times. These divine principles and values are straightforward and clear; they are beautiful, profound, and powerful; and they can definitely help us to avoid future regrets. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. -- Charles Spurgeon
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. -- Susan B. Anthony
When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew. -- Cavett Robert
The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects. -- Ezra Taft Benson
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. -- F. L. Lucas
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. -- Wendell Phillips
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. -- Asa Gray
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. -- Jodi Picoult
My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader. -- Mr. T
You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education. -- Meg Whitman
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 sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places. -- Joel Osteen
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. -- Story Musgrave
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 be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here. -- Max Baucus
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd. -- Reverend Malcolm Boyd
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die! -- Charles R. Swindoll
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. -- Jeff Goodell
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 clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. -- Herman Melville
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 the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor. -- Eugene H. Peterson
The White House is a bully pulpit. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. -- Robert Aris Willmott
We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit -- Sunday Adelaja
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. -- Horace Greeley
I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist. -- John Grierson
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! -- Theodore Roosevelt
The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation. -- Max Lucado
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. -- Horace Greeley
I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God. -- Greg Laurie
The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her. -- Charles Spurgeon
The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry. -- Thomas de Quincey
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. -- Robert Southey
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him. -- Steven J Lawson
The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit. -- Dwight L. Moody
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. -- Jeb Bush
In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride. -- Max Lucado
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair. -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it. -- Richard Cecil
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. -- William Weld
The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God. -- Greg Laurie
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. -- C. S. Lewis
The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it. -- Martyn
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway. -- Mark Twain
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. -- Edith Hamilton
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. -- Abraham Lincoln
The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. -- Herman Melville
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation. -- Van Jones
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong. -- Vance Havner
Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society -- Sunday Adelaja
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked. -- James A. Baldwin
If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you." -- David Lloyd-Jones
If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. -- Mark Twain
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything. -- Charles Caleb Colton
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television]. -- Fred W. Friendly
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
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits. -- Maya Angelou
Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth. -- Richard Salter Storrs
He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit. -- Steven J. Law
Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit! -- Eric Ludy
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 in. -- Charles Spurgeon
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. -- Benjamin Disraeli
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon. -- John Calvin
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 the pulpit. -- Thurman Arnold
I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves. -- Carlos Celdran
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit. -- Helen H. Gardener
The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media. -- Sunday Adelaja
Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way. -- Jandy Nelson
Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name. -- Joseph Langford
So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way. -- Uwem Akpan
Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both. -- R. Scott Bakker
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 is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way. -- Mark Twain

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