Presbyterians Quotes - Page 4

• I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

  John Templeton

  Christian, Optimistic, Opportunity

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1999.

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• I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

  Shelley Long

  Believe, Raised, Predestination

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• I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

  Joan Van Ark

  Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Giving, Bird

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• [My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

  Hershel Shanks

  Father, Hebrew, Ministers

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Strong, Father, Men

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• I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Meditation, Church

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• Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

  Herman Melville

  Heaven, Needs, Pagan

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.82

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• John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Dream, Heaven

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• As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

  John Bright

  Catholic, Irishmen, Protestants

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.538

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• It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

  John Bright

  People, Catholic, Church

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes”, p.534

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• My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

  Grant Morrison

  Accomplishment, Soul, Want

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

  Charles Hodge

  Government, Discipline, People

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.21

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• I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.

  Wesley Clark

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  "'I'm Spiritual. I'm Religious. I'm a Good Christian.'". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com. December 2003.

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• I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

  Andy Dick

  School, Sunday, Years

  Interview with Steven Lawson, relevantmagazine.com. May 21, 2003.

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• I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

  Ray Charles

  Catholic, Baptists, Methodists

  "Ray Charles: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

  Barbara Ascher

  Butterfly, Church, Vines

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• They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions frankly are banding together, we need to band together.

  Donald Trump

  Together, Proud, Siege

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, Running, Religious

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.

  Sara Paretsky

  Men, Risk, Want

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

  Rob Corddry

  Mother, Sunday, Church

  "20Q Rob Corddry". Interview with Eric ­Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. September 22, 2014.

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• It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.

  Lisa Rinna

  Gratitude, Thinking, Catholic

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• I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.

  Donald Trump

  Support, Great Relationship, Ministers

  Source: townhall.com

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