#pulpit

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

— F. L. Lucas

#directly #fails #far #grows #had

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

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

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

#christianity #consists #explaining #fact #found

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

#communication #creation #direct #emerson #ended

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#because #both #get #home #i

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

— Wendell Phillips

#congress #enacted #i #i care #make

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#am #big #fiction #i #i am

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

— Slick Rick

#hiphop #i #i think #people #pulpit

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

— Jimmy Swaggart

#go to hell #hell #i #i do #millions

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. ↗

— William Weld

#catalyst #government #healthy #high #high office