A Quote by J. C. Ryle

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

J. C. Ryle

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Church Pulpit Put Stove Want Warm

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J. C. Ryle
English - Priest
May 10, 1816 - June 10, 1900

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Robert Jeffress

The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.

Steven Berkoff

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.

Colleen Atwood

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin to preach from the pulpit, from the Bible, to a congregation and to build a church, so to speak - I don't have a desire for that.

KRS-One

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Henry Ward Beecher

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

Mark Twain

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Billy Sunday

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

Dwight L. Moody

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

Mike Cameron

For something warm, try adding cinnamon sticks and nutmeg to apple cider simmering on the stove. You'll get the added benefit of making your home smell amazing.

Clinton Kelly

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I was growing up, a warm, crusty baguette was within arm's reach during every dinner: sliced, if my mom was cooking, or left whole so we could tear it apart if my dad was at the stove.

Chris Morocco

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.