Englishmen Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Myriads of professing Christians nowadays seem utterly unable to distinguish things that differ. Like people afflicted with colour-blindness, they are incapable of discerning what…

— J.C. Ryle

If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse;…

— George Horace Lorimer

That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle…

— William Penn

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined…

— Stanley Hauerwas

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

— Horace Walpole

“Who all is in there? Speak up and be quick about it!' 'A Methodist and a son a bitch!”

— Charles Portis

Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the…

— Adam Hamilton

“Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest…

— John Wesley

Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only…

— Lewis Browne

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

“Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested,” he says, smiling blandly, “and more arrests are anticipated.” Two of the Quakers…

— Margaret Atwood