Baptists Quotes · Page 3

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

— H. L. Mencken

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

— Billy Graham

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

— Billy Graham

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

— T. D. Jakes

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

— Charles Spurgeon

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

— Dave Hickey

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

— John Henrik Clarke

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

— Billy Graham

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an…

— Flannery O'Connor

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be…

— Billy Graham

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is…

— Charles Spurgeon

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns…

— Josh Turner

I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You…

— Rick Warren

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has…

— Bill Moyers

The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

— Paul Washer

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is…

— Jack Hyles

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in…

— Sherri Shepherd

Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing…

— Curtis Hutson

Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing…

— George W. Bush

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it…

— Charles Spurgeon

But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten…

— Steven Furtick

And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To…

— Mike Huckabee

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,…

— Oswald Chambers

Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our…

— Lottie Moon

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and…

— John Quincy Adams

I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance…

— Jimmy Carter

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one…

— Will Smith

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.…

— Ray Bradbury

Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public…

— Darrel Ray

If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the…

— Kyle Minor

The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered…

— Harry S. Truman

She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois…

— Lauren Groff

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

— George Eldon Ladd

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

— Charles Spurgeon

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

— Charles Spurgeon

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

— Charles Spurgeon

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

— Missi Pyle

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

— Oswald Chambers

“The trouble with Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough.”

— William Brann

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

— Charles Spurgeon