Quotes about Pulpit
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
— Ellen White
The church has only one altar, the altar of the Almighty... before which all creatures must kneel... Whoever seeks something other than this must keep away; he cannot join us in the house of God... The church has only one pulpit, and from that pulpit, faith in God will be preached, and no other faith, and no other will than the will of God, however well-intentioned.
— Eric Metaxas
The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
— Joel Beeke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
— Edmund Burke
The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
— JC Ryle
Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Truth loves the light and is most beautiful when it is most naked. If you would not teach men, why are you in the pulpit? If you would teach men, why do you not speak so as to be understood?
— Richard Baxter
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
— Vance Havner
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God.
— Greg Laurie
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 Spurgeon