(14 quotes found)
“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”
Dr. Seuss
“Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress”
Wendell Phillips
“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,”
Fred Eckhard
“There is not in all the pulpits ingenuity enough to harmonize these ignorant and stupid contradictions”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.”
Cavett Robert
“Look in moist, secluded woodlands in April and May to see the jack-in-the-pulpit. Its most noticeable feature is the three fleshy leaves that extend above the actual flower, hiding it from immediate view.”
Dot Abbott
“[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism.”
Thorstein Veblen
“It's the strongest bully pulpit in the world. What he says is noted by everyone. Everyone may not agree or follow what he says, but clearly he has the ear of the world — and that's a very privileged position.”
Chester Gillis
“Dogma still smells the same whether it comes from the podium or the pulpit”
Steve Mading
“While all this was going on, the one-and-only Jimmy Swaggart was preaching from the pulpit, while the choir was singing and everyone was yelling 'praise Jesus.' You just can't make this stuff up,”
Timothy Egan