60 Baptist Quotes for You to Enjoy

I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages. Donna Edwards

Faith Gay Church Will Too Our Say Out Marriages Maryland Leaders Performed Likely Understand Go Heard Want Baptist

I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience. Jake Peavy

Life Family Experience Remember Old Church My Life Awesome Think Saved Enough Seven All My Friends About Road Knew Understand Lord Years Up Friends Friends And Family Where Wanted Grew Baptist Nearly Jesus

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 Black

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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. Jay Parini

Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt. Jay Parini

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

Sometimes Chant Purge Buddhist Feel Like Catholic Am Sins Confess Just Depends Where Baptist Shout Need

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview. Jimmy Dean

Music Church Outside Since Loved Baptist Ward

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

Saying Crazy Try Father Conviction Trial Churches Trial Lawyers Would My Friend Cases Lawyers Also Around Go Were Heard Lot Texas Friend Preachers Austin Baptist Little Crazy Things Her Things Watch Raised

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

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

Family Religious New How Am Go Texas Left Very Southern Southern Baptist York New York Baptist Realised Inclined

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

Conversation Church Girl First Nice Complete Secretary Vampire Wrote Am Pastor Reporter Baptist While Former Interesting Newspaper Newspaper Reporter Turned Working Novel Novelist Night

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

You About Get Baptist Hollywood

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist. Natalie Cole

Faith Husband First Active Christian Changed Married Born-Again More Became Always Been Baptist Much Episcopalian Christian Faith Raised

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

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

Mom Christian Side Southern Southern Baptist Baptist

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

Fact Like Got Baptist Conscience Early Raised

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died. Philip Kerr

Work Day Religion Church Three First Big Took Our Sundays Some Could Knock Missionary Talk House Were Bloody Times Died Quite After Afternoon Baptist Dad Thing

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

Conservative Point Point Of View South Southern Southern Baptist Baptist Republican View

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians. Shereen El Feki

Family Book People Mother Father Church Men Free Islam Christian Jews Muslim Marry Marrying Brother Anglican Obliged Lay Leap She Became Mobility Preacher Wales Vicar Baptist Upward Upward Mobility Converted Them Among Her Christians

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

Mother Father Methodist Baptist

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary. Tim Pigott-Smith

Day Home Writing School Church First Reading One Day John Boring Primary Arithmetic Primary School Like Said Very Going Going Home Baptist Sent Much Really England

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

Religion Own My Own Catholic Sort Baptist Jewish

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