Definition of Pulpit

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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

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
Ellen G. White

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

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

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

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
Asa Gray

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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