Words matter. These are the best Pulpit Quotes from famous people such as Eugene H. Peterson, Meg Whitman, Malcolm Boyd, Ezra Taft Benson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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 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.
The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.
‘The bully pulpit’ is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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.
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.
I do not intend to use the Surgeon General’s Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it’s global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don’t have a balanced conversation.
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.
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.
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.
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
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.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin to preach from the pulpit, from the Bible, to a congregation and to build a church, so to speak – I don’t have a desire for that.
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words ‘climate change’ in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned… then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That’s not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.
It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It’s another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, ‘No, that’s not a conservative position, that’s not what we’re doing.’
When it’s foggy in the pulpit it’s cloudy in the pew.
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!
The theatre is your pulpit – it is your church – and you want to be a priest in your church, and that’s what I believe in.
We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.
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.
