Presbyterians Quotes

• ...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

  Ishmael

  Needs, Mending, Cracked

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• We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Weather, Religion

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

  John Gresham Machen

  God, Christian, Men

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.154, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• They lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.321

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Revenge, Heart

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• Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.71, Penguin

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• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  R. C. Sproul

  Theology, Feels, Determine

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2017

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• Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Attachment, Looks

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• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sin, Sinner

  Twitter post from Oct 3, 2017

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• Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pharisees, Sometimes, Christ

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• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

  John Flavel

  Baby, Religious, Prayer

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Meaningful, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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• I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

  Woody Harrelson

  School, College, Twenties

  "The Gospel Truths of Woody Harrelson". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. February 9, 2012.

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• That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Thoughtful, Simple

  Mark Twain (2015). “Christian Science”, p.27, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

  Lyman Beecher

  Science, Controversial Topics, Achievement

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 162, 1895.

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• Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

  Sylvester Graham

  Food, Race, Vegetables

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• As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

  John Flavel

  God, Religious, Firsts

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• If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Ifs, Loses

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• PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Government, Church, Conviction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.169, 谷月社

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• I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

  Emo Philips

  Thinking, Body, Temples

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• The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"

  R. C. Sproul

  Way, One Way

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2016

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• Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving, Joy, Sin

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• The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

  Timothy Keller

  World, Messages

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• God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Holiness, Accommodate

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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