Baptist Quotes

108 Baptist quotes by 92 unique authors

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those… — Josh Turner
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. — E. O. Wilson
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or… — E. O. Wilson
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner
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
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… — Susanna Kaysen
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,… — Lauren Groff
Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of… — Sue Monk Kidd
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a… — Noam Chomsky
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate… — Christopher Hitchens
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial --… — Octavia Butler
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… — Charlaine Harris
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… — Janet Evanovich
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too. — Kami Garcia
The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. — Jon Stewart
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… — Christopher Moore
He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the… — Matt Chandler
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,… — Tessa Dare
The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to… — Nancy Pearcey
Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try… — Julie White
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like… — Wesley Clark
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to… — James W. Black
My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I… — Dick Gephardt
With all due respect for the finger of John the Baptist, the shin of St George most of the holy relics in Christendom pale in… — Unknown Author

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