Pulpit Quotes

• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Politics
  • Agreement
  • Pulpit

• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Human Nature
  • Doctrine
  • Preach

• This is the church I grew up in. This is my daughter at the pulpit. Meg and I have taught her since she was born that she is powerful. I thank God for her voice (and for grandparents that do too).

  

  Pat Barrett
  • Church
  • Teach
  • Grow Up

• One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Role
  • Pulpit
  • Protestantism

• Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Progress
  • Presses
  • Apostles

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

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Practice
  • Wells
  • Pulpit

• "I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit-"and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself-that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Opinions

• 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
  • Faces
  • Refuse
  • Pulpit

• 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.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Life
  • Pulpit
  • Glory of Christianity