Top 100 Quotes About The Pulpit
#1. 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
#2. The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
Thomas De Quincey
#3. Politicians are less problem for us, our greatest challenge as a nation is coming from the pulpit.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you?
John Dos Passos
#6. 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
#7. Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
#9. What you do at the pulpit would be considered lunatic behaviour on the street. You can't go around terrorizing people and making them feel small and shitty and then call them evil when they destroy themselves. You will never walk down a street and feel a lightness come over you. You will never fly.
Miriam Toews
#10. Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
Horace Greeley
#11. The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
Richard Cecil
#12. Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.
Billy Graham
#13. 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
#14. Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
#15. Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God ... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.
John Adams
#17. A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.
Dwight L. Moody
#18. No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
Jimmy Swaggart
#20. The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. 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
#22. Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the whole country, in no time like a cancer spreading throughout the body.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#25. If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
Edith Hamilton
#27. My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men
Bryce Courtenay
#28. The press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class.
Eugene V. Debs
#29. 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
#30. The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)
Philip Wylie
#31. 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.
Donald Wuerl
#32. 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.
Malcolm Boyd
#33. If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit.
Leonard Ravenhill
#34. Fire, brimstone and impending apocalypse have always had great success in the pulpit, and the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.
Rebecca Solnit
#35. The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
J.C. Ryle
#36. A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.
Erika Johansen
#37. Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. 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
#39. It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?
Mark Twain
#40. The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God.
Greg Laurie
#41. All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. A man may cry out against sin in principle; but he cannot abhor it except by virtue of a godly aversion against it. I have heard many cry out against sin in the pulpit, but who still live with it without any problem in their heart, house, and everyday life.
John Bunyan
#43. Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.
Philip Gulley
#44. The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.
John Gresham Machen
#45. 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. Lawson
#46. If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
J.C. Ryle
#47. Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
#48. Spare neither labor in the study, prayer in the closet, nor zeal in the pulpit. If men do not judge their souls to be worth a thought, compel them to see that their minister is of a vex], different opinion.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.
Matt Chandler
#50. Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Mark Twain
#51. Not coincidentally, there is something reminiscent of a minister and his flock, or perhaps a choir leader and his singers, in the final effect. Even the yoke of the Master's robe matches that of a man of the pulpit. After
Jackey Neyman Jones
#52. 110. When I enter the pulpit with the Bible in my hands and in my heart, my blood begins to flow and my eyes to sparkle for the sheer glory of having God's Word to expound.
John R.W. Stott
#53. 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
#54. The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
Dwight L. Moody
#55. There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#56. The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.
Martyn
#57. The church must be united from the preschool ministry to the pulpit around one central understanding: the gospel transforms. Yes, the gospel must be the foundational truth on which each of these ministries takes their stand.
Matt Chandler
#58. If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy Graham
#59. The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave.
Sunday Adelaja
#60. I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.
Greg Laurie
#61. If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
C.S. Lewis
#62. I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
John Knox
#63. I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
Robert H. Schuller
#64. Eddie Fislinger's church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.
Sinclair Lewis
#65. deaf. Unruffled by Herbert Jemson's breach of allegiance, because he had not heard it, Mr. Stone rose and walked to the pulpit with Bible in hand. He opened it and said, "My text for today is taken from the twenty-first
Harper Lee
#66. Hospitality can be an expression of doctrine beyond the pulpit. Hospitality is the means by which the Church, from the ground level, models the gospel to others.
Matt Chandler
#67. In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.
Fulton J. Sheen
#68. You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can't take the ministry out of the minister.
Katherine J. Walden
#69. It appears, then, that the two processes are going on side by side, the decline of Church membership and the decline of dogma; the evacuation of the pew and the jettisoning of cargo from the pulpit.
Ronald Knox
#70. The values of a nation can be made from the pulpit of the land.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.
Herman Melville
#72. Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
#73. 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
#74. Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.
Jack Hyles
#76. 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
#77. The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.
Horace Mann
#78. 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
#79. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#80. John Oman warns, unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God's message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own.
Alexander Strauch
#81. One popular saying was, The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.
Volney Steele
#82. God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.
Steven J. Lawson
#83. When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.
Sunday Adelaja
#84. Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off telling her the Pope is gay.
Bill Blais
#85. Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#86. The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
S.D. Gordon
#88. In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Oliver Goldsmith
#89. The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#90. He doubted the hand of God but did not discount it - discarding only the God of the pulpit and the pious.
Jeffrey Lent
#91. Pastor Face Your Business" When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach
Sunday Adelaja
#92. Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
James A. Baldwin
#93. The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#94. From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.
Paul Billheimer
#95. We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.
Charles Spurgeon
