Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on…

“faith in action.” At church, we were taught to be “doers of the word, not hearers only.” That meant stepping outside the pews, rolling…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Father taught me to like wht he called 'discussion', she recalled. Margaret Thatcher never repudiated the Methodism of her childhood, with its reverence for…

— Charles Moore

I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“Willy began to avidly read the Bible and books from Nichols’ small library. Books by Jeremy Taylor taught him how a person tries to…

— Sam Wellman

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted…

— H. L. Mencken

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of…

— Marcel Proust

“Taking DHEA caused a mental awakening in me.”

— Steven Magee

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

— Tim Walberg

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

— Noam Chomsky

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

— John McCarthy

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the…

— Noam Chomsky

The American dream itself is declining.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

— Dave Barry

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to…

— Erica Jong