Free Presbyterian Church may mean:
- Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, a breakaway from the Free Church of Scotland
- Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, sometimes known simply as Free Presbyterian Church, founded by Ian Paisley in 1951.
- Free Presbyterian Church of North America, formerly part of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, became self-sufficient in 2005.
- Free Presbyterian Church (Australia)
- Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria, formerly Free Presbyterian Church of Australia Felix
- Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia popularly known as the Free Presbyterian Church
Famous quotes containing the words free, presbyterian and/or church:
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
—Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)
“The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)