#baptist

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. ↗

— Richard Land

#believers #civil #evil #god #magistrate

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

#blood #god #impending #jesus #john

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. ↗

— Warren Mitchell

#baptists #being #capable #catholics #destroying

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

#bourbon #churches #corporal #could #country

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. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #college #did #everything #except

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

#baptist #church #compared #culture #go

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#church #every #folks #go #holiness

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

#biggest #catholic #catholic church #church #crush

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

#better #called #calling #christ #dignity

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

— Whoopi Goldberg

#believe #buddhist #catholic #family #i