Baptists Quotes - Page 12

• I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

  Craig Brewer

  Christian, Dad, Southern

  "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshipping God. And whether it's a Sikh temple, or a Baptist church, or a Catholic church, or a Muslim mosque - whatever it is - I just abhor this kind of violence, and it's the kind of thing that we should do something about.

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Hate, Expression

  "Pat Robertson Links 'Hate' of God to Wis. Sikh Temple Shooting" by Katherine Weber, www.christianpost.com. August 06, 2012.

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• It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

  Jacques Maritain

  Believe, Burning, Guests

  Jacques Maritain (2013). “The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time”, p.91, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.

  Martin Luther

  Years, Church, Christ

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• Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.

  James Patterson

  Cat, Hell, Raises

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• In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.

  Richard Henry Pratt

  Believe, Civilization, Indian

  Richard Henry Pratt, Robert Marshall Utley (1979). “The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Its Origins, Purposes, Progress, and the Difficulties Surmounted”

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• Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Church, Atheism

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• The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Party, Gun, Atheism

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• If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Mean, Men, May

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• To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

  James Madison

  Government, Land, House

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• It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Religion, World

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.18

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Life And Death, Southern

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

  Aretha Franklin

  Song, Jesus, Dad

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• Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

  John Muir

  Heaven, Mountain, Jordan

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.86, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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