Quotes About Baptist

Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist—" "That's what you are, ain't it?" "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist.

I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

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.

I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were very accepting of people of all faiths.

Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional Southern Baptist home.

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.

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.'

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.

Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.

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 Fluffy?

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

I'm glad I was raised as a Baptist, because I got my conscience installed early.

Indeed, according to one Georgia Baptist editor, it was northern "opposition to plain Biblical teachings, which has dissolved our once glorious Union.

After reviewing how denominational strife had led to war and while admitting the guilt of many Confederates, a Baptist preacher concluded that "faith once delivered to the Saints has been maintained in its integrity and purity throughout the States of the South.

It should be remembered that while the Baptist's ministry in the Synoptics has several points of contact with contemporary eschatological and apocalyptic thought, it has even more striking elements of divergence. "The essential mystery of prophetic insight and divine inspiration" cannot be explained by the limitations of a naturalistic methodology.

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

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

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

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

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.

If you were raised in Oklahoma, you've got to be a Southern Baptist or something.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.