Baptists Quotes - Page 6

• Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

  Jessica Simpson

  Southern, Church, Grew Up

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• I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

  Will Smith

  Crush, Girl, Catholic

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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• I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Real, Hymns

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• The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Southern, Humanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teaching, College, Class

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• As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

  Al Sharpton

  Couple, Gay, Views

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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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• I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew of other churches. I got baptized with my fiancé (Nic Taylor) this last year at Saranac Lake Baptist Church (in New York), so maybe that makes us Baptist. But for me, it's really been about my relationship with Christ and not so much about a denomination or a label.

  Elana Meyers

  New York, Lakes, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

  Jonathan Cain

  Girlfriend, Children, Blessing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

  John Rawls

  Virginia, Together, England

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

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• From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Kids, Years

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Civilization, Moss

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.160

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• It's not about being a Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or 5-Point Calvinist. God has only one family and, as Christians, we're in it!

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Pentecostal, Presbyterians

  Twitter post from Aug 08, 2014

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• A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

  Judith Hayes

  Fear, Catholic, Atheism

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• You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

  Mike Colter

  Roots, Southern, Soul

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Spiritual, Catholic, Unity

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Warren Beatty's Homage To Howard Hughes Opens In Theaters On Wednesday". "All Things Considered" with Renee Montagne, kvcrnews.org. November 22, 2016.

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• When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a lot more of that.I don't believe - maybe it was for a time. But I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm there to encourage them.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Believe, Heart

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Jesus, Mean, White

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel in my bedroom as I kneeled in prayer. I kept my eyes closed, good Baptist that I was at the time, so I never knew if it was an angel. (I now am reasonably confident it was.)

  Scot McKnight

  Prayer, Eye, Angel

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Paul points out that some say, 'I'm of Paul,' while others say, 'I'm of Apollos.' He asked, 'Isn't that carnal?' But what's the difference between saying that or saying, 'I'm a Baptist,' 'I'm a Presbyterian,' 'I'm a Methodist,' 'I'm a Catholic'? I have found that the more spiritual a person becomes, the less denominational he is. We should realize that we're all part of the Body of Christ and that there aren't any real divisions in the Body. We're all one.

  Chuck Smith

  Spiritual, Real, Differences

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• Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

  Jean Shepherd

  Father, Men, Catholic

  "Fictional character: Ralphie as an Adult". "A Christmas Story", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1983.

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