Presbyterians Quotes

• ...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

  Ishmael

  Needs, Mending, Cracked

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• We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Weather, Religion

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.71, Penguin

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• Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Salvation, Significance

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• According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

  John Gresham Machen

  God, Christian, Men

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.154, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• They lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.321

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• That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Thoughtful, Simple

  Mark Twain (2015). “Christian Science”, p.27, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  R. C. Sproul

  Theology, Feels, Determine

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2017

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• The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

  R. C. Sproul

  Anchors, Promise, Today

  Twitter post from May 02, 2016

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• Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Attachment, Looks

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Revenge, Heart

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Atheism, Slave, Reason

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Fighting, Wife

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• We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sin, Sinner

  Twitter post from Oct 3, 2017

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• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

  Bruce McCall

  Dream, Golf, Self

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• Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Scotch, Drunk

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

  Mark Twain

  Gambling, Long, Whiskey

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• Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.

  June Jordan

  White, Pie, America

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Beautiful, Country, Religious

  U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon 718 F.2d (1210), 1983.

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• The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759 (still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).

  Andrew Tobias

  Years, America, Corporations

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

  Donald Trump

  Love, People, Church

  "Trump believes in God, but hasn't sought forgiveness". edition.cnn.com. July 19, 2015.

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• 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

  Giving Up, Taken, Long

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.225, 谷月社

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• Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heaven, Baptists, Denominations

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• I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Men, Religion

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.177, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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