Top 199 Pulpit Quotes & Sayings

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

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

The White House is a bully pulpit.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bearthe earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invokedfor favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

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

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

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

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.

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

In the pulpit, were 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.

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

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

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

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Bully pulpit of the presidency is really tough to fight.

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

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

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

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

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.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.