Baptists Quotes

• I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

  Kinky Friedman

  Long, Southern, Ems

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• I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

  Octavia Butler

  Facts, Raised, Conscience

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• You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

  DeForest Kelley

  Son, Ministers

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• John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

  James Green

  Voice, Needs, Calling

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• You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

  William Faulkner

  Old Testament, Ulysses, Should

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

  Richard Land

  Strong, Umpires, Evil

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• I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

  Tom T. Hall

  Catholic, Quarters, My Own

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• My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

  Al Sharpton

  Age, Church, Today

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• But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

  Tim McGraw

  Strong, Grew Up, Backgrounds

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, Blood, Rivers

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• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Moving, Artist, People

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• I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

  Shannen Doherty

  Views, Southern, Conservative

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• I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

  Willard Scott

  Southern, Meteorologists, Southern Baptist

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• And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Lines, Pentecostal, Instance

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• I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Southern, Church, Southern Baptist

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• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  Warren Mitchell

  Atheist, Hate, Thinking

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• You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cowboy, Might, Crosses

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• Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Thinking, Heaven, Enjoy

  Mike Huckabee's press conference at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) "Decision 2008", September 28, 2007.

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• My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mother, Father, Methodists

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• You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Light, Long

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• We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.266, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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