Presbyterian Quotes

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'
Tom Hiddleston

Life, Work, Strong

My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson

Wife, Church, Attends

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch

Family, Mother, Father

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
Karl Rove

Christian, Born

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.
Pete Seeger

Saying, Country, Group

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
Patricia Heaton

Jesus, Christian, Catholic

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
Brian De Palma

School, However, Quaker

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
John Hughes

Style, Early, Prose

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
Richard Ford

Pretty, Guilty, Read

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.
John Bright

True, Small, Both

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
John Bright

Nor, Neither, Catholic

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Sally Quinn

Experience, Mother, Father

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
Joan Van Ark

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
James Green Somerville

Money, Father, Working

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
Daniel H. Hill

Love, God, Fear

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
Shelley Long

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Frame

Sometimes, Guilty, Few

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sam Barry

Small, Church, Nebraska

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