quotes about Baptists
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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 -
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
-- Bear Grylls -
I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
-- Beth Ditto -
This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.
-- Brandon Marshall -
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The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,†a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?
-- Charlaine Harris -
I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.
-- Chris ParnellSource : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 21, 2003.
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Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
-- Dave Hickey -
You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
-- DeForest Kelley -
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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 -
It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!
-- Fred PhelpsSource : "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.
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The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
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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 HaweisSource : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.18
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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 -
I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.
-- James Sharp -
Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. "I thought you were Baptist." "Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.
-- Janet Evanovich -
I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.
-- Jimmy Carter -
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The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.
-- Jon Stewart -
Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.
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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 -
I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
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John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
-- Missi PyleSource : "Diva Talk: Chatting With Bare Star Missi Pyle". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. January 11, 2013.
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There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.
-- Ray Thompson -
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 PrattSource : 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 are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
-- Richard Land -
I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
-- Shannen Doherty -
Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
-- Sitting BullSource : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
-- T. D. Jakes -
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
-- Tim McGraw -
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
-- Tom T. Hall -
And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
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The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.
-- Winthrop Mackworth PraedSource : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1857). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.133
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I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.
-- Ralph StanleySource : "Remembering Bluegrass And Banjo Legend Ralph Stanley". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.
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