Quotes About Presbyterians

#1. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#2. Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Libba Bray

#9. Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more.

R.K. Narayan

#10. 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

#11. Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#12. Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

#13. 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

#14. In the fourteenth century eighty thousand of these Covenanting Presbyterians were found in Austria and maintained their principles to the death.

Anonymous

#15. Lorrie, we're going to be together tonight. And tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that. We're going to work things out together.

Priscilla West

#16. Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.

Nathaniel Branden

#17. Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Terry Eagleton

#18. 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

#19. Enlightened leaders get more out of their people because they know that each person already has everything it takes to be successful. They

Steve Chandler

#20. Discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good

Benjamin Franklin

#21. Why do we so often find the flaws in people while they are here and finally see the good in them when they are gone?

Christine Edwards

#22. 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

#23. It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Mark Twain

#24. When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.

Jandy Nelson

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

Harold Bloom

#26. Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.

Pat Roberts

#27. You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

Charles Tupper

#28. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

William Shakespeare

#29. And 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

#30. Well here again that don't apply
But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.

T. S. Eliot