Pulpit Quotations

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

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

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.

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

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

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.

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.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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

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

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

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

From the Republican standpoint, we need the president to continue using the bully pulpit - in terms of defining the economy, defining the war, defining the war on terrorism. As opposed to that vacuum that was created last year where the Democrats defined the war and oil prices defined the economy.

He is going to use this trial as his bully pulpit in an effort to put that invasion on trial, ... But it's not really in his client's interest to try to hijack the trial and make it all about U.S. violations of international law.

He is doing what he can from his bully pulpit but he is not in a position to actively engage as a mediator without the cooperation of both sides,

He obviously has to go through Congress to get things done. But he can't be seen as tied to its failings. He has to use the bully pulpit effectively and confront Congress effectively.

He can say some things from the pulpit that he can't say face to face.

I think the president will use the bully pulpit to make competitiveness a part of the national debate.

I remember when I went down to preach at the (King birthday) national celebration in 2003, and the (U.S.) Secretary of Education's people came to me before I was going into the pulpit and said, 'We need to know, are you going to say anything about the president or about the administration? I went over to Mrs. King and (told her) they're asking what I'm going to speak about, and if I'm going to talk about the administration. Now, you're the one who invited me here, what do you think? She said, 'You speak the truth and you answer to nobody.' And that was the kind of woman she was. She made it very clear. She believed in what she did and gave her life for it.

We need to present both sides' arguments, both sides of the coin, as fairly and as accurately as possible, and really let the readers make their own decision. Marvel readers come in all shapes and sizes, and we speak to so many different people, different demographics. It's unfair for us to make this our bully pulpit and sit there and say, 'This bad. That good.'.

We interpret this as the president using his bully pulpit to support freedom of inquiry and free speech about the issue of biological origins, ... It's extremely timely and welcome because so many scientists are experiencing recriminations for breaking with Darwinist orthodoxy.

We need the President to use the bully pulpit to get foreign leaders to respect our innovation.

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

The governor has a very large and loud bully pulpit to speak from and I hope the governor helps promote much of the enrollment in the next 18 days.

We're very excited about it, ... We hope to use the pulpit in the future in balancing spiritual, mental and physical health for an overall healthy Christian life.

Adam Hamilton is one of the most balanced, healthy pulpit pastors in America. Kansas City is very fortunate to have him in the metro.

They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.

It's the difference between art and propaganda or quality entertainment and propaganda. I'm not interested in convincing. The pulpit in churches is for that purpose. The pulpit for politicians is for that purpose. It doesn't belong in movies.

It is the parents who really drive true changes in education, and public education will only improve to the extent that parents are given some say in what's going on in the schools and the president speaking from the bully pulpit is not going to give them that opportunity.

The council's role now is trying to mobilize their constituents to exert public pressure to rebuild the entire city. It's a bully pulpit role.

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

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

You've got 500 million years of history exposed here at Pulpit Rock, Garden of the Gods and in Manitou Springs,

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

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!

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

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

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

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

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

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

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.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.