My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
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 to making new and better mistakes.
And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.
The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
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 thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.
John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here. "
Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K. K. K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!
I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.
When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
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 an occasion like this.
Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.
Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.
