I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people. — Clark Duke Copy Share Image
If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
“Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.” — William Allen White Copy Share Image
“Ignorant beings they must be if they look for wealth in connection with the Baptist ministry.” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“coming to Christ and bringing others along are among the core responsibilities of a Southern Baptist, for whom it is an article… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town… — Moby Copy Share Image
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
“John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us and leaving us not quite… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I was raised as a Baptist in the Bible Belt of the South. Until the age of 37, I had never heard… — Kimberly Eady Copy Share Image
When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and… — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing… — Josh Henderson Copy Share Image
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
“Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them… — Richard Henry Pratt Copy Share Image
“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“John the Baptist wore rough clothes woven from camel's hair and a leather belt. He ate dried grasshoppers and wild honey from… — Daniel Partner Copy Share Image
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch… — Julie White Copy Share Image
My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17… — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“Yeah his being Sumerian to this group would go over like an Ozzy Osbourne/Marilyn Manson duet at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you… — Rick Gavin Copy Share Image
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
“You need to get in the Baptist way of churching, son. Ours welcomes newcomers. You can take this place, and maybe some… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Yeah, I grew up in the church, and we were heavily religious in my household and my entire family. I'm from the… — Doechii Copy Share Image
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
