Baptists Quotes · Page 6

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right…

— David Jeremiah

If I don't get ran out by Catholics, here come some conservative Baptists. Claiming he overreacting.

— Kanye West

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He…

— Billy Graham

How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may…

— F.B. Meyer

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so…

— Craig Brewer

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early…

— Dick Gephardt

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

— Arianna Huffington

I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas…

— David Sedaris

“Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I…

— Janis Ian

My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to…

— Robert Glasper

When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands…

— Jonathan Cain

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians…

— Jimmy Carter

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a…

— Jim Foglesong

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town…

— Moby

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

— William Faulkner

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush…

— Will Smith

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant…

— Aimee Semple McPherson

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

— John Fugelsang

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

— Lester Roloff

“What were they?” “Baptists. They had a stronghold in the Blue Hills. They smoked them out.” “Praise be.” Sometimes I wish she…

— Margaret Atwood

Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they…

— Lindsey Graham

“You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics”

— Jeri Massi

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church…

— Missi Pyle

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all…

— Sitting Bull

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

— Marilyn Manson

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

— Jesse Jackson

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

— Brandon Marshall

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

— Patti Smith

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming…

— Fred Phelps

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

— Oswald Chambers

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian…

— Penn Jillette

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

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God…

— Oswald Chambers

[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to…

— Katharina Zell

A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want…

— Can Themba

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

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

Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where…

— Charles Spurgeon