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God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.
Billy Graham
Divine providence never removes anything from your life without giving something of greater value in return.
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
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But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
Tim McGraw
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I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
Shannen Doherty
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And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
Octavia Butler
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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Tom T. Hall
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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
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John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
Leonard Ravenhill
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes
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And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.
Mike Huckabee
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When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.
Billy Graham
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.
Paul Washer
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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
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Baptists are only funny underwater.
Neil Simon
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I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.
Chris Parnell
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.
James Sharp
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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
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The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.
Jon Stewart
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All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
Alphonsus Liguori
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
E. O. Wilson
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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
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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
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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
Mark Twain
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This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.
Brandon Marshall
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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
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Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.
James Patterson
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My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
Missi Pyle
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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
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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
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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.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.
Mike Huckabee
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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
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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
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Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
Dave Hickey