Presbyterians Quotes

Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

— R. C. Sproul

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

— Timothy Keller

Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.

— Pat Roberts

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

— Timothy Keller

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— R. C. Sproul

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

— Libba Bray

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not…

— R. C. Sproul

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did…

— Mark Twain

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

— R. C. Sproul

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

— Libba Bray

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

— R. C. Sproul

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

— Grant Morrison

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

— Barbara Ascher

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

— Ishmael

[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free…

— Oliver D. Crisp

I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were…

— John Templeton

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every…

— Andy Dick

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts…

— Mark Twain

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

— Timothy Keller

It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just…

— Lisa Rinna

I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only…

— Sun Myung Moon

The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister,…

— Sara Paretsky

Paul points out that some say, 'I'm of Paul,' while others say, 'I'm of Apollos.' He asked, 'Isn't that carnal?' But what's…

— Chuck Smith

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago…

— Sara Paretsky

Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate…

— June Jordan

Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the…

— Charles Taze Russell

American Presbyterians, as a whole, have already lost a large percentage of their population since 2008, in part because of the creation…

— Anthea Butler

“On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the shortest journey; parents believed…

— Eudora Welty

“Tho' I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted,…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Harold Bloom

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

— R. C. Sproul

I'm Presbyterian. I mean Seven Day Adventists I don't know about, I just don't know about.

— Donald Trump

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

— R. C. Sproul

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

— Sylvester Graham

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the…

— Mark Twain

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you…

— Timothy Keller

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

— William Saroyan