Episcopalians Quotes

• I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

  Stephen Collins

  Church, Matthew, Pacific

  16 Copy quote

• My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

  John Shelby Spong

  Challenges, Church, Want

  9 Copy quote

• My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

  Anna Lee

  Boyfriend, Prayer, Dad

  8 Copy quote

• An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rome, Differences, Church

  7 Copy quote

• Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

  Florence King

  Flying, Church, Pillars

  4 Copy quote

• I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a religion can contain the whole truth. No religion, it seems to me, contains the whole truth. I think it's mad to think that there is nothing to learn from other traditions and civilizations. If you accept that other religions have something to offer and you learn from them, that is what you become: a Buddhist-Episcopalian or a Hindu-Muslim or whatever.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhist, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

  Charlaine Harris

  United States, States, United

  4 Copy quote

• I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

  T Bone Burnett

  Mom, Home, Dallas

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Suicide, Catholic, Church

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.118, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Challenges, Church, Teeth

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.

  Robert Novak

  Spiritual, War, Talking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?

  Meg Cabot

  Giving Up, Men, Needs

  Meg Cabot (2008). “Tommy Sullivan is a Freak”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or what? It just causes all sorts of problems. And what are the kids praying about anyway? Does it really matter, does praying in school...what are you doing it for? The whole thing just opens up all sorts of elements of discussion. I think it's crazy.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Teacher, Prayer, Crazy

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

  Mike Berenstain

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

  Elana Meyers

  Home, Years, Two Year Olds

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Growing Up, Father

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  239 Copy quote

• If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Mean, Men, May

  4 Copy quote

• I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

  Sally Quinn

  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The work of God in salvation is a supernatural work, but in the United States of America and among Baptists it's been reduced down to a few evangelical hoops that if we can get someone to jump through, we declare them popishly to be savedit has been the pulpit that's sending more people to Hell than any liberal organization on the face of the earthnot a liberal Methodist, not a liberal Episcopalian, but a Baptist who claims to know God's word and yet does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Organization, America

  24 Copy quote

• 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.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Stills, Knows

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because they get the rings under water. When it comes up, it's garbage. Jewish, big rings. Episcopalian big rings. Italians-the best, because they get them off of dead people, and second wives get the biggest rings of all.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, People, Water

  13 Copy quote