Aimee Semple Mcpherson Quotes

#1. Her room is full of books by people who have radio hours. It's the gospel according to Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson - American dynamism gilded onto a platform of individual redemption. It's religion as detergent.

Carlene Bauer

#2. It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

Dorothy Parker

#3. Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

John Boehner

#4. O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#5. What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

Aimee Semple McPherson

#6. Don't let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly.

Sameh Elsayed

#7. I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#8. Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Michael Josephson

#9. Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#10. I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

George Voinovich

#11. We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ...

Aimee Semple McPherson

#12. But here's my secret, what I think has gotten my husband and I through over twenty years, my sister through almost thirty, and my folks through almost over fifty: humor. We laugh at ourselves, each other, at pretty much everything.

Rachel Thompson

#13. What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

George Woodcock

#14. Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#15. What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#16. With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

Aimee Semple McPherson

#17. Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Voltaire

#18. Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#19. She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#20. People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Kate Zambreno