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  • Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist. -- Samuel Bowers
  • I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist. -- Willard Scott
  • Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist. -- Hank Greenwald
  • I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. -- Mike Huckabee
  • My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious. -- Missi Pyle
  • Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist. -- Pat Robertson
  • But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background. -- Tim McGraw
  • My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. -- T. D. Jakes
  • Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. -- Dave Hickey
  • The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack. -- H. L. Mencken
  • I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree. -- Jimmy Carter
  • I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. -- Tom T. Hall
  • There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world. -- Ray Thompson
  • My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. -- Whoopi Goldberg
  • My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. -- Aaron Paul
  • You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. -- William Faulkner
  • I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. -- Bear Grylls
  • The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. -- Jon Stewart
  • You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. -- Octavia Butler
  • I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member. -- Julianne Malveaux
  • I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying. -- Brandon Marshall
  • John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. -- Paul Washer
  • I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican. -- Shannen Doherty
  • The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too. -- Kami Garcia
  • I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? -- Mark Twain
  • I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian. -- James Sharp
  • The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't. -- Luke Myer
  • All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars. -- Patti Smith
  • Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church. -- John Fugelsang
  • I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher. -- Brian Greene
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something. -- Marilyn Manson
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers. -- Warren Beatty
  • I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God. -- Rick Warren
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god. -- Judith Hayes
  • 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
  • Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience. -- Bill Moyers
  • 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
  • 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. -- Janet Evanovich
  • I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic. -- Queen Latifah
  • God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed. -- Fred Phelps
  • I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. -- Will Smith
  • It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
  • The fundamentalists were equally stymied. â??We were worried about Adam and Steve,â? a Baptist minister said. â??Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy? -- Charlaine Harris
  • I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith. -- Brittany Murphy
  • 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. -- Christopher Moore
  • I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church. -- Ralph Stanley
  • Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period. -- Kelli Jae Baeli
  • 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
  • I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught. -- Dick Gephardt
  • 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. -- Aimee Semple McPherson
  • 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. -- Richard Henry Pratt
  • I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith. -- Craig Brewer
  • Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains. -- John Muir
  • I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation. -- Sarah Winnemucca
  • I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea. -- Michael Eisner
  • No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least. -- Robert Graves
  • My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined. -- Lynn Collins
  • The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists. -- Boris Kodjoe
  • John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • 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 any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. -- E. O. Wilson
  • 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 with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010) -- Christopher Hitchens
  • He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David. -- John S. Mosby
  • You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots. -- Mike Colter
  • I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. -- Octavia E. Butler
  • I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • [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. -- Katharina Zell
  • We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners. -- John Shelton Reed
  • My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life. -- Josh Henderson
  • I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?". -- Roger Ross Williams
  • As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way -- Al Sharpton
  • 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 was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern. -- Dick Gephardt
  • There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible. -- Victoria Jackson
  • Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes. -- Harry S. Truman
  • My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything. -- Lucy Alibar
  • Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant. -- H. L. Mencken
  • 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. -- Curtis Jackson
  • Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.' -- Judy Gold
  • 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 the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show. -- Robert Glasper
  • One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl. -- Naturi Naughton
  • It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us. -- Nicky Gumbel
  • Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true. -- Martin Luther
  • I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. -- Dennis Quaid
  • I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try cases. I also heard of lot of Baptist preachers in little churches saying crazy things with such conviction. -- Julie White
  • It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love. -- Jacques Maritain
  • 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 be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. -- James W. Black
  • The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star. -- Marion Meade
  • Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am. -- Jill Scott
  • 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! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor. -- Molly Harper
  • I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God. -- Ray Charles
  • John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth. -- James Green
  • It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross -- Bernard of Clairvaux
  • If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation. -- Marcus Garvey
  • You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against. -- Adoniram Judson
  • John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth. -- James Green Somerville
  • I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me. -- David Sedaris
  • 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'tthat'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. -- Matt Chandler
  • I also admire my pastor, John K. Jenkins Sr. (First Baptist Church of Glenarden). My pastor taught me the importance of tithing and giving back, that it has to be at the top of my budget. And he is one of the most generous folks I know. -- Michelle Singletary
  • 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. -- Matt Chandler
  • I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. -- John Grisham
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