Baptist Quotes

anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur — Dan Simmons

I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots. — Emma Donoghue

You know it's a real salvation when Baptists use cold water. — Jared Brock

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 Praed

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near. — John The Baptist

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

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

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist. — Pat Robertson

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. — T.D. Jakes

The angels heralded the birth of the Savior, John the Baptist heralded the coming of the Savior, and we herald the gospel of the Savior. — Katy Kauffman

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

I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood. — Morgan Fairchild

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. — Tom T. Hall

Wilcrest Baptist Church is God's multiethnic bridge that draws all people to Jesus Christ, who transforms them from unbelievers to missionaries. — Rodney M. Woo

Dale is Baptist. He doesn't worry about much in life, but he worries about the devil afterwards. — Sheila Turnage

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

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. — E. O. Wilson

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people. — Clark Duke

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist. — Willard Scott

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. — Whoopi Goldberg

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. — T.D. Jakes

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't. — Luke Myer

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

13 Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist. — Anonymous

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own. — Johann Baptist Metz

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. — Mike Huckabee

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist. — Samuel Bowers

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart ... ? — Johann Baptist Metz

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. — Jon Stewart

It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality. — Kelly J. Cogswell

Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none. — John The Baptist

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. — Bear Grylls

I looked as appropiate as a Moonie at a Baptist picnic, but I rode trough the land of the power tie and tightened sphincter to Eden Park. — Warren Moore

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 am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist. — Flannery O'Connor

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher. — Brian Greene

Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist. — William Allen White

All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom. — Sheri Holman

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

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 that. — Wesley Clark

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 Phelps

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Am equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist church — David Frost

that government is best which rules least," John Leland Baptist spokesman who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760. — Robert G. Torbet

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering." — Johann Baptist Metz

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too. — Kami Garcia

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world. — Ray Thompson

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree. — Jimmy Carter

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church. — Jessica Simpson

Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist. — Hank Greenwald

The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger. — Robert McCammon

By the late twentieth century, Jefferson's windfall would be feeding much of the world. — Edward E. Baptist

I was raised in the Baptist church ... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. — T.D. Jakes

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time. — Missi Pyle

Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself. — Tom Robbins

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

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz

Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could. — Lindsey Graham

Herricks to the Baptist chapel. Though they often strolled — Lawana Blackwell

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.' — Aretha Franklin

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

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

It's not about being a Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or 5-Point Calvinist. God has only one family and, as Christians, we're in it! — Jim Cymbala

Ignorant beings they must be if they look for wealth in connection with the Baptist ministry. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you burn in hell. — Rick Gavin

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. — Aaron Paul

University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas. — Martin Gardner

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister. — DeForest Kelley

The lonely old soul took to Bomar like a cannibal to a fat Baptist missionary.
Bomar — Kurt Vonnegut

When we are brought low, that's when God is preparing us — Northside Baptist Church

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

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack. — H.L. Mencken

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian. — James Sharp

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation. — Johann Baptist Metz

I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church. — Rick Scott

Bernie could talk a Baptist into burning a Bible, — Pat Conroy

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican. — Shannen Doherty

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope. — Johann Baptist Metz

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. — Dave Hickey

William Carey, the great Baptist missionary, said, "Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God. — Angus Buchan

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. — Leonard Ravenhill

The shortest definition of religion: interruption. — Johann Baptist Metz

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister. — Aaron Paul

In fact she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder. — Orson Scott Card

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. — Kinky Friedman

I'm Baptist. So far, Fast or Never is the only speeds I got with forgiving. — Sheila Turnage

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain