#methodist

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

And that was true. As the other world experience faded she found herself left with little that she had not known before; there was nothing really that the stark, simple teaching of the Methodist faith did not cover. She had never heard of the Jesuit who said, "Give me a child until he is seven and after that you may do what you like with him", but she was living proof of his theory's validity." Damask Greenway ↗

— Norah Lofts

#faith #jesuit #methodist #experience

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. ↗

— Tori Amos

#being #church #corn #crab #father

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#conservative #i #methodist #reared

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#church #done #favorite #grew #i

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#brought #church #every #every sunday #i

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

#agency #applied #apply #catholic #community

I am - and have always been - a Methodist. ↗

— Paul Getty

#am #been #i #i am #methodist

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#care #dame #game #man #methodist

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. ↗

— William Gilbert

#manners #marquis #methodist #morals