Pulpit Quotes

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

  Billy Graham

  Hell, Ifs

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

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Weekend, People, Scary

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it’s a place to preach the word of God.

  Greg Laurie

  Settling, Score, Word Of God

  Twitter post from Nov 7, 2013

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

  Ellen G. White

  Should, Heard

  Ellen G. White (2013). “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. II. - Prophets and Kings”, p.516, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Firsts, Steps

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• I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Grace, Return

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• The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, People, Giving

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.20, Bethany House

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• 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

  Christian, Facts, Glory

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Justice, Atheism, Culprit

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1877). “Lectures To My Students”, p.12, Fig

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• If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

  Matt Chandler

  Coward, Gone, Beast

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• If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Today, Temples

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

  Wendell Phillips

  Caring, Care, Newspapers

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

  Slick Rick

  Thinking, People, Should

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• If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

  J. C. Ryle

  Church, Want, Stoves

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• I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.

  Greg Laurie

  Representing

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• 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.

  John Grisham

  Watches, Soapbox, Want

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• God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

  Steven J Lawson

  Honor, Christ, Abandon

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

  John Knox

  Devil, Christianity

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• No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Christianity

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.25, Bethany House

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• 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

  Christian, Mother, Morning

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• From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Heart, Fire

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.17, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• 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.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Theatre, Example, Lines

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• The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

  Herman Melville

  Religion, World, Voyages

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

  Thomas de Quincey

  Style, Germany, Preaching

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