25 Methodist Quotes for You to Enjoy

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Game Man Atheist Care Wins Methodist Southern Notre Dame Who Watches University Dame

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God. Ray Charles

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. Aaron Neville

Religion People Father Churches Both Catholic Were Methodist Raised

Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps. Adam Hamilton

Together Culture Church Society Our Those Has-Been Willing Divided Always Opposite Methodist Been Left Historically Camps Listen Stood Often Center Wars Found United Right Things Bring

The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston. Anthea Butler

History Church Men First Group Prominent Would Charleston Brown Deliberate Given Lead Morris Failed Most Likely Go Methodist South Denmark Pastor Revolt Shooter African Episcopal Choice Who Large Including Founded Slave

I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services. Christopher Moore

Family Father Church First Say Sundays More Football Attending Mainly Concerned Methodist Than Baptized Which Much Services Watching Raised

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. Hugh Hefner

You Heart Guess Typical Say Kid Could Methodist Just

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast. Ian Beattie

Best Challenges Age Old Focus Thought College Parents Old Age Circus Would Would-Be More Retired Methodist Grand Belfast Started

In George W. Bush's case, the public paid far too little attention to the role of religion in his thinking. Many voters failed to appreciate that while Bush's religious beliefs may be moderate Methodist ones, he was someone who relied on his faith immoderately, as an alternative to rational understanding of complex issues. Jacob Weisberg

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My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up. John Coltrane

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember. John Edgar Wideman

Family Pride Remember Gossip Church Older Gatherings Members Out Unofficial Folk About Had Part She Because Came Were Methodist Aunt Historian Very Family Members African Stories Information Place Storyteller Episcopal Much Floor

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in. Kay Granger

Me Worth School Dance Church Country Club Think Those Area Country Club Like Most Learned Methodist Up Just Middle Grew Middle School Place Fort Then Grounded Elementary Lived Elementary School United Things

I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes. Kevin McCloud

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules. Kourtney Kardashian

Fashion Day Me Confidence Book Remember Labor Day College Own White Rules Wear Never Remember When Making Making Up Methodist Aunt Lot Up Labor Southern Being After Sent Your Away Belle Dallas University

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend. Lee Smith

Family Mother Church Parents Own Older Wild Would My Friend My Own Had Spoke Go Were Methodist Friend Very Just Happen Loved Little Whose Letting Letting Go Raised Tongues

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister. Stacey Abrams

Class Women School Mother Poverty Seven Librarian High Minister Abject High School Finish Only Support Mississippi She Returned Became Around Methodist Up Graduated Grew Then Elementary Elementary School United Her Sibling

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it. Stanley Hauerwas

Morning You Church Sunday Made Think Saved Though Member Sunday Morning Sunday Night Had Fake Still Methodist Been Did Wanted Baptized Should Meant Evangelical Raised Night

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. T. D. Jakes

Mother Father Methodist Baptist

I grew up very heavily involved in a United Methodist Youth organization. I grew up going to church camp for years. I ministered, and country music stole me away. It was just where my heart wound up. It's what I wanted to do. Tracy Lawrence

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work. Trevor Phillips

Work Saying Me Law Country Nothing Community Our Our Community Indeed Say Rules Adoption Principle Catholic Parts Methodist Different Agency Then Us Different Parts Therefore Why Why Not Applied Apply

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. William Gilbert

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