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

  DeForest Kelley

  Son, Ministers

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

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Southern, Church, Southern Baptist

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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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• I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

  Willard Scott

  Southern, Meteorologists, Southern Baptist

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

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Lines, Pentecostal, Instance

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Dream, Heaven

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• Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Political, Church

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers”, p.21

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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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• 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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• 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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