Presbyterians Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Dog, Father

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• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Principles, Prejudice

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Pharisees, Sometimes, Christ

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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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• 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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• 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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• The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Slavery, Irony

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Want, Benefits

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2017

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• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Grace, Pharaohs

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• God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

  R. C. Sproul

  Humanity, Deities, Human Nature

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• If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

  R. C. Sproul

  Would Be, Christ, Talk To Me

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• It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Church, Hell

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• She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

  John Steinbeck

  Brain, Mind, Down And

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.13, Penguin

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Father, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.

  Pat Roberts

  Spirit, Antichrist

  "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast. p.239, 2002.

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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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• I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Differences, Intellectual

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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

  Timothy Keller

  World, Messages

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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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