Pulpit
An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
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Pulpit Quotations
If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy Graham
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
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.
Herman Melville
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
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.
Meg Whitman
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
William Weld
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.
Story Musgrave
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
Jimmy Swaggart
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.
Malcolm Boyd
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
Pulpit Translations
pulpit in Dutch is kansel, leerstoel, katheder
pulpit in French is chaire
pulpit in German is Kanzel
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