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Pastor Face Your Business" When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit. — J.C. Ryle

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

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly ... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F.L. Lucas

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong. — Vance Havner

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. — Horace Greeley

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her. — Charles Spurgeon

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox. — James Baldwin

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

The press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class. — Eugene V. Debs

You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can't take the ministry out of the minister. — Katherine J. Walden

We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice. — Jesse Kellerman

What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. — Herman Melville

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God. — Greg Laurie

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis

But here's the bottom line, the president of the United States, he controls the bully pulpit, he can talk about anything he wants to talk about. — Timothy Griffin

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit. — Henry Ward Beecher

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. — Edmund Burke

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit. — Dwight L. Moody

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit. — Steven J. Lawson

Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth. — Philip Gulley

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

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. — John Ruskin

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell. — Jimmy Swaggart

Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations. — Wesley L. Duewel

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits. — Maya Angelou

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne — Christopher Love

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. — Susan B. Anthony

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television]. — Fred W. Friendly

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

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey

We could fix the pulpit by changing the messages. — Sunday Adelaja

We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit — Sunday Adelaja

He doubted the hand of God but did not discount it - discarding only the God of the pulpit and the pious. — Jeffrey Lent

Our pulpit and churches are responsible for any kind of menace we see in our society today. — Sunday Adelaja

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you." — David Lloyd-Jones

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. — John Grisham

The White House is a bully pulpit. — Theodore Roosevelt

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God. — Greg Laurie

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! — Theodore Roosevelt

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. — Jean De La Bruyere

if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service. — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves. — Carlos Celdran

We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down. — Sunday Adelaja

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects. — Ezra Taft Benson

My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men — Bryce Courtenay

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society — Sunday Adelaja

Our churches and pulpit are key to refocusing and redirecting our nation. — Sunday Adelaja

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry. — Thomas De Quincey

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. — Oliver Goldsmith

If Jesus came back today, he wouldn't cleanse the temple, he'd cleanse the pulpit. — Leonard Ravenhill

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. — Wendell Phillips

Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit. — Iain Sinclair

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

One popular saying was, The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit. — Volney Steele

There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew. — Jack Hyles

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. — Asa Gray

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. — John Knox

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew. — Cavett Robert

So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them. — Marilynne Robinson

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him. — Steven J. Lawson

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything. — Charles Caleb Colton

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home. — J.C. Ryle

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. — Robert Aris Willmott

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

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton

A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit. — Erika Johansen

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew. — Billy Graham

Deception starts from the pulpit — Sunday Adelaja

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist. — John Grierson

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway. — Mark Twain

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

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong. — Matt Chandler

The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it. — Martyn

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. — Abraham Lincoln

He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit. — Steven J. Lawson

Politicians are less problem for us, our greatest challenge as a nation is coming from the pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

The pulpit is never to be the ladder by which ambition is to climb — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is only the man that has done his best that qualifies to ask for God's protection and blessings. This message must return to our pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. — Mark Twain

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. — Ellen G. White

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked. — James A. Baldwin

The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave. — Sunday Adelaja

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew. — Leonard Ravenhill

Your job becomes your pulpit, your performance becomes your platform, and the marketplace becomes your parish. — Bill Winston

The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. — Slick Rick

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon. — John Calvin