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.
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.
Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You're not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You're there to entertain.
The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own. 45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter.
Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation by those anointed of God to preach the Gospel. The revival under Josiah took place when 'Hilkiah found the Book of the Law of the Lord'.
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.
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.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly. . . in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
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.
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
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.
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!