Babies Quote by Eudora Welty

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

— Mark Twain

“We were the church. As the New Testament instructed. When it was time for Sunday morning meeting, we convened in private homes. To raise…

— Michael Perry

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…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“as a member in good standing of The First Church of Nothing in Particular, I had no grudge against the Baptists. The only religions…

— Stephen King

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

— Rob Corddry

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

— Libba Bray

“In Sunday school, they made it sound like the women of the Bible were a bunch of pious schoolmarms—but nothing could be further from…

— Sam Torode

“Now, remember, my brethren, those who go skating, buggy riding or on excursions on the Sabbath day—and there is a great deal of this…

— Brigham Young

“They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able…

— Jeanette Winterson

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.

— Wess Stafford

“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the…

— Dorothy Day

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

— Billy Graham