Pulpit Quotes - Page 2

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

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Ifs

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• A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Mother, Morning

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

  William Weld

  Government, Office, Bully

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  Edmund Burke

  Agreement, Political, Politics

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Heaven, Church, Trying

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4892, Delphi Classics

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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

  Voice, Failing, Grows

  F L Lucas, (2013). “The Decline And Fall Of The Romantic Ideal”, p.167, Read Books Ltd

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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

  Men, Judging, Advice

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

  Charles Haddon

  Grace, Calvinism, Arise

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Desire

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• If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Sleep, Eye

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• The irresponsible rhetoric of Barack Obama, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly I have ever seen.

  Donald Trump

  Race, Color, America

  Source: time.com

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• God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains.

  Russell Brand

  Atheist, Heart, Air

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

  Thomas de Quincey

  Style, Germany, Preaching

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• The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Worst

  "I'm not praying" by Cath Elliott, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2008.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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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

  Sunday, Imagination, Important

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• 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

  Theatre, Example, Lines

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• Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Produce, Congregation

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• The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

  Max Lucado

  Self, Promotion, Self Deprecation

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

  Herman Melville

  Religion, World, Voyages

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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

  Sorry, People, Church

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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• The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Home, Christian Inspirational

  J. C. Ryle (2007). “Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.381, Hendrickson Publishers

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• It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Teacher, Kings, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 78), 1895.

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• 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

  Faithful, May, Presentation

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of success in preaching without notes, 3 lects”, p.169

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