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Tag Name "Pulpit" (98)

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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
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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing the local papers said nothing against it the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.
Mark Twain
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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
Ellen G. White
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I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.
John Grierson
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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
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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Mark Twain
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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
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
Richard Cecil
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If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.
Albert Mohler
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We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
Leonard Ravenhill
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If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
J. C. Ryle
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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
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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
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F. L. Lucas
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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
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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
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Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
Antonio Machado
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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
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No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
C. S. Lewis
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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
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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
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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