There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour.... The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the black girls didn't get these pills because their black ministers were up on the pulpit saying that birth control pills wer...e black genocide. What I'm saying is that black men have exploited black women.... They didn't want them to have any choice about their reproductive health. And if you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit.... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more ca...ndor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to--no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrass...ed, unabashed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap--let it be taught ...in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;Mlet it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;Mlet it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 clergy...man 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit ...against the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »