Baptists Quotes - Page 5

• If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Confidence

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.137, Discovery House

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• Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

  Billy Graham

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

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• If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your heart. It is a prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit, a prayer that God will be pleased to hear.

  John R. Rice

  God, Religious, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.262, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

  Billy Graham

  Life, God, Faith

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.308, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Faith, God, Christian

  George Eldon Ladd (1996). “The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

  James Sharp

  Christian, Titles, World

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• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  E. O. Wilson

  Southern, Adherence, Grew

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• There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

  Ray Thompson

  Texas, Missionary, World

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• Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

  Mike Huckabee

  Apology, Ministers

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• John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Miracle, Christianity, Old Testament

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

  Ray Bradbury

  Dog, Book, Cat

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• The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

  Jon Stewart

  Church, Chickens, Fried Chicken

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• Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

  Lottie Moon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.226, Mercer University Press

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• God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, God, Christian

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.102, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

  Harold Bloom

  Men, Southern, Religion

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• Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Thinking, Dancing, Making Love

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Real, Angel

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.125, Vintage

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