Pulpit Quotes

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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.

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.

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

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

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

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.