John The Baptist Quotes

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Miracle, Baptists, Christianity

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• When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he was in need of repentance, or conversion: he did it to be among people who need forgiveness, among us sinners, and to take upon himself the burden of our sins.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, People, Water

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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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• If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

  Christopher Moore

  Mistake, Baptists, Ifs

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Clouds, Yield

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.110, Barbour Publishing

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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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• [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.

  Katharina Zell

  Speaking Up, Baptists, Pharisees

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• All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Role Models, Roles

  "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

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• Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

  John Eldredge

  Faith, Cousin, Jesus

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.230, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

  Bear Grylls

  Growing Up, Robins, Baptists

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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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, Baptists

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

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• He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

  Anne Lamott

  Tea, Yogurt, Baptists

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.15, Penguin

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• No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.

  Robert Graves

  Christian, Jesus, Acceptance

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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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• 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, Baptists

  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, Baptists

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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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• Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Hero, Science, Suffering

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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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• The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Modern Life, Baptists

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• I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dream, Albums, Satanic

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• It’s all right,” she said. “You’re through.” “Jesus,” he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.” Still not enough. He needed to reach back to the Old Testament for this. “Obadiah. Nebuchadnezzar. Methuselah and Job.” “Be calm,” she said, taking him by the shoulders. “Be calm. And there are women in the Bible, you know.” “Yes. As I recall it, they were trouble, every last one.

  Tessa Dare

  Jesus, Jobs, Water

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• It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

  Francois Mauriac

  Light, Sprung Up, Secret

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• Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Baptists, Dublin

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

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• Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

  Hank Greenwald

  Baseball, Ties, Three

  "Baseball lists: funny lines, great nicknames" by Bruce Jenkins, www.sfgate.com. April 3, 2016.

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