Methodists Quotes - Page 3

• First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Party, Thinking, Tea

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• What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Men, Differences

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• The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, House, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.286, Harvard University Press

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• God was in Christ, reconciling the world.

  Lamin Sanneh

  World, Christ, Propitiation

  Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.71, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Atheist, Catholic, Would Be

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should be able to participate in their constitutional free exercise of religion. I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the U.S. military to promote it.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Military, Humor

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• As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

  Hillary Clinton

  Christian, Suffering, Church

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

  John Wesley

  Money, Giving, Frugal

  "The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M". Book edited by John Emory, Volume I, p. 446. Sermon 50: "The Use of Money", 1840.

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• One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

  Martha Raye

  Catholic, Paper, Fitting

  "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 216), April 8, 1999.

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• George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Southern, President

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• We will keep a commitment to pluralism and not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Commitment, People

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• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Thinking

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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• There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Self, White

  Press Conference With the UK's Brown, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2008.

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

  George McGovern

  Dad, War, Boys

  "George McGovern's Legacy: From Liberalism to Feeding the Hungry" by Matthew Larotonda, abcnews.go.com. October 21, 2012.

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• In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

  Hillary Clinton

  Republican, My Family

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• The work of God in salvation is a supernatural work, but in the United States of America and among Baptists it's been reduced down to a few evangelical hoops that if we can get someone to jump through, we declare them popishly to be savedit has been the pulpit that's sending more people to Hell than any liberal organization on the face of the earthnot a liberal Methodist, not a liberal Episcopalian, but a Baptist who claims to know God's word and yet does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Organization, America

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• I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.

  Hugh Hefner

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were wrong. So, what I'm financing is humility. I want people to realize that you shouldn't think you know it all.

  John Templeton

  Christian, Humility, Thinking

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• I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Home, Kids

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• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.19, Random House

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• My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

  Jonathan Groff

  Mother, Strong, School

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• (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Cities, Canada, Portraits

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• A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

  William Cobbett

  Religious, Couple, Food

  William Cobbett (2009). “Cottage Economy”, p.84, Applewood Books

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• I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

  Deborah Norville

  Baby, Sunday, Church

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• I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

  Mem Fox

  Wind, Church, Daily Life

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