Methodist Church Quotes

#1. First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

Emanuel Cleaver

#2. My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Wesley Clark

#3. Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

Adam Hamilton

#4. My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Joel Burns

#5. A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Then he lost all coherence and began a hysterical giggle, compounded with a slight twitch and very pronounced emission of saliva from his mouth. When he finally fell silent, the stillness was of that horrified kind that follows a fart in a Methodist church.

Frederick Exley

#7. God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church.

Rick Scott

#9. I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

James Redfield

#10. I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

Hilarie Burton

#11. I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.

Elizabeth Warren

#12. I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

Stanley Hauerwas

#13. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

Jonathan Groff

#14. The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

David Mamet

#15. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.

Patrick Ness

#17. It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.

Nicky Gumbel

#18. My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Tori Amos

#19. I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.

Christopher Moore

#20. Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Wes Bentley

#21. As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

Hillary Clinton

#22. He's an odd duck
but he's a good kid, with a good heart.

Lisa Scottoline

#23. I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

Steve Wozniak

#24. My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.

Andrew Skurka

#25. The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

#26. I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Deborah Norville

#27. I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Mem Fox

#28. Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it is something you carry in your heart.

Al Hughes

#29. Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Dick Gregory

#30. We expect Evil to announce itself.

Karen Marie Moning

#31. Something like that," he said. "Do you attend church?" "Haven't in years," Miller said. "I was a Methodist when I was anything. What flavor are you selling?" The

James S.A. Corey

#32. Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

William Faulkner

#33. You can't write if you don't read.

Steve Earle