Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive.
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
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?
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks who show up on Sunday. I think that's just wrong, but scholars rarely make any effort to decipher their own scholarly work for people outside the ivory tower.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
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.
The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
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.
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.
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.