Methodist Quotations

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.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

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.

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.

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.

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

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.

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.

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

If it's life or limb threatening, we recommend the emergency room, and we still work closely with Methodist Hospitals. But if a cook cuts himself or an employees hurts their back or knee, we can treat them. We're a one stop shop, we currently have three clinics and are hoping to expand.

He has been known to frequently donate them to fundraisers. In the last few years, this one-man cottage industry has raised and donated $65,000 to a scholarship fund to a Methodist seminary in Moscow that trains new ministers.

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Pam Morrison (pastor of the First United Methodist Church) has spoken with Dexter and assured him that as a community we want to do whatever we can to help. We will stay on top of this situation and do what we can to help on of Baldwin's own.

Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.

I think we just fell behind on too many batters. Clearly Methodist is a good team. And they capitalized on that.

Methodist is proud to lead the way in patient safety. We are committed to delivering outstanding healthcare, period, and patient safety is an important part of that.

We really tied in with First United Methodist Church in that they let us use their showers,

First United Methodist Church has a van that's taking us to Birmingham.

Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.

I remember losing that ring. I got the ring my junior year and I lost it right after I got it. I was on a retreat in 1962 with the First Methodist Church youth group.

Cancer is a disease that touches many lives, and the proceeds from the luncheon will provide an excellent service towards increasing breast cancer prevention, ... I am pleased to be a part of the Methodist Healthcare Cancer Center Luncheon, and I am looking forward to my trip to Memphis.

They are providing financial resources and volunteers. From our Methodist heritage, that's our roots.