#presbyterian

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#go #i #much #presbyterian #very

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

— Shelley Long

#even #i #i was raised #predestination #presbyterian

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

— John Bright

#catholic #episcopalian #i #i am #irishman

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

#although #among #been #churches #consciences

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

#am #catholic #churches #country #every

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

#among #amounted #call #father #had

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#fear #gloomy #god #him #ideas

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

#actor #becoming #been #could #down

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #discipline #doubt #government