Pulpit Quotes - Page 4

• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?

  Leslie Stephen

  Angel, Men, Laughing

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

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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

  Religious, Writing, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

  John Wesley

  Order, Soul, Religion

  John Wesley (1871). “Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe”, p.158

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

  Richard Cecil

  Mean, Ministry, Looks

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• 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

  Teaching, Training, Example

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

  Horace Greeley

  Practice, Would Be, Wells

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• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  George Holyoake

  Spiritual, Passion, Mean

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Criticism, Age, Censure

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• His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

  Matthew Simpson

  Responsibility, Angel, Issues

  Matthew Simpson (1879). “Lectures on Preaching: Delivered to the Students of Yale College in 1879”

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

  Horace Greeley

  Progress, Ink, Newspapers

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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

  Christian, Country, Atheism

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• 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.

  Walter Wangerin

  God, Father, Should Have

  Walter Wangerin (2003). “This Earthly Pilgrimage: Tales and Observations on the Way”

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• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Home, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Usa, Bully

  "Jeb Bush: Obama trying to 'attack capitalism'" by Peter Hamby, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 29, 2009.

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• It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Animal, Agency

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• Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

  Story Musgrave

  Communication, Going Out, Want

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Echoes, Media, Voice

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• This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
  This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal.
  This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit,
  What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Player, Opposites

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• The White House is a bully pulpit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  White, House, Bully

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• Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Snow, Tree, Stronger

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• Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

  Eric Ludy

  Sex, Needs, Pastor

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• One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Communication, Quality, Roles

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• I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mean, Gun, Epidemics

  "Surgeon General’s Warning". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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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

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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