Top 239 Baptist Quotes & Sayings

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

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

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

My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

As a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country.

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

We went to Baptist church as a family, and that took up so many nights a week.

Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going to a Catholic school so I had a fascination with the Catholic Church mainly because, in my mind, (their services) didn't take as long. I was bouncing in between my mom's Baptist church, which was called Second Zion Baptist, and going to a Catholic Church.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

I dont feel qualified or that I really have time to be involved with the Southern Baptist Convention.

I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

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

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.

A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.

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.

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

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

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

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!

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

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.

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.

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.

I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew of other churches. I got baptized with my fiancé (Nic Taylor) this last year at Saranac Lake Baptist Church (in New York), so maybe that makes us Baptist. But for me, it's really been about my relationship with Christ and not so much about a denomination or a label.

I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

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

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people.

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

I grew up in a Baptist church my whole life.

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.