Quotessence
Home / Topics / Presbyterians Quotes

Presbyterians Quotes

Browse 102 quotes about Presbyterians.

Related topics

ChurchChristianCatholicReligiousIfsKnowsMinistersBaptistsMenChristEpiscopaliansFatherMethodistsPeopleProtestantsSinThinkingWant

Presbyterians Quotes

“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.”

ThinkingMindFirstsHumansReadyLogicFaith In GodCreedsProvidenceInfidelityThreatenedPreyShipwreckPresbyteriansInquiringMisinterpretationCatechismInquiring Minds
Book:Studies in the Scriptures
Create image

“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.”

MenShouldPersonsPhilosophyPoliticalNationsChurchPoorWorryPositionFineNeededCitizensTaxesConcernAcceptedStatementsOfficialsReliefSecularConformPresbyterians
Book:Elizabeth I
Create image

“Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.”

ReasonAtheismMinesDutyConscienceSlavePositive AtheismOccasionsHuntsPretextPresbyteriansAll Occasions
Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Create image

“There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.”

ChristianFightingChurchWifeAtheismInfluenceOughtVoteRelationPositive AtheismMy WifeCombinationExceptionBakersPresbyteriansDeistVote For Me
Author:Abraham Lincoln
Create image

“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."”

DreamChristianHeavenAnswersHellSalvationGatesBaptistsPresbyteriansMethodistsGates Of HellGates Of HeavenEpiscopalians
Author:George Whitefield
Create image

“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?'”

KnowsMenWantUsedActorsFatherStrongClassBecomingPercentDown AndEducatedPretendingWorking ClassScottishPresbyteriansPretending To Be Someone Else
Author:Tom Hiddleston
Create image

“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.”

WorldBelieveLittlesUniversePrinciplesBallsPrejudiceJewAwfulConfessionCreedsNewtonSpitBoundlessBlasphemyTaintedPresbyterians
Book:The Portable John Adams
Create image

“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.”

PeopleKnowsChurchUnitedCatholicPopulationBeing TrueSufficientMinoritiesProtestantsPresbyteriansEpiscopalians
Book:Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes
Create image

“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.”

PeopleGovernmentChurchPrinciplesDoubtDisciplineNo DoubtPresbyteriansVests
Book:What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
Create image

“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.”

KindHelpingRunningWantedTermChurchReligiousRightsStudentsCollegeSummerProgramTestsUniversityCommittedJewCivil RightsChicagoRelevantAdsEnergeticCampusKansasOrganizerCollege StudentsPresbyteriansCollege Campus
Author:Sara Paretsky
Create image