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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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• One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

  Peg Bracken

  Piano, Church, Firsts

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Lying, Sound, Best Place

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Thinking, Infidelity, Mind

  Charles Taze Russell (2009). “Studies in the Scriptures”, General Books

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• I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

  Margaret George

  Philosophy, Men, Worry

  Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan

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• Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

  Sitting Bull

  Catholic, Doe, Different

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

  Kathryn Stockett

  Honesty, Lying, Agreement

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.98, Penguin

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• Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Encouragement, Ideas, Gloomy

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• It's not about being a Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or 5-Point Calvinist. God has only one family and, as Christians, we're in it!

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Baptists, Pentecostal

  Twitter post from Aug 08, 2014

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• What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

  Muriel Beadle

  College, Students, Forget

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• As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.

  Norman Maclean

  Beautiful, Father, Able

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

  Libba Bray

  Dad, Kids, Ministers

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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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• What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

  Mark Twain

  God, Atheist, Character

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

  Menzies Campbell

  Vices, Virtue, Scottish

  Menzies Campbell (2008). “Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography”

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• More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

  Harold Bloom

  Men, Southern, Religion

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• Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

  William Saroyan

  Students, Poet, Preacher

  "Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever". Book by William Saroyan, 1976.

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• I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

  Sally Quinn

  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

  Richard Ford

  Opportunity, Play, Guilty

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• Paul points out that some say, 'I'm of Paul,' while others say, 'I'm of Apollos.' He asked, 'Isn't that carnal?' But what's the difference between saying that or saying, 'I'm a Baptist,' 'I'm a Presbyterian,' 'I'm a Methodist,' 'I'm a Catholic'? I have found that the more spiritual a person becomes, the less denominational he is. We should realize that we're all part of the Body of Christ and that there aren't any real divisions in the Body. We're all one.

  Chuck Smith

  Spiritual, Real, Differences

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• You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them

  Pat Robertson

  Religious, Nice, People

  "The 700 Club", January 14, 1991.

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• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Mother, Father, Responsibility

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

  Karl Rove

  Christian, Born, Wells

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• However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

  Brian De Palma

  School, Years, Twelve

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• Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

  Libba Bray

  Reason, Sucker

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