38 Quotes About Baptists



  • Author Alphonsus Liguori
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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.

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  • Author Anne Lamott
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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.

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  • Author Martin Luther
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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.

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  • Author Aimee McPherson
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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.

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  • Author Brandon Marshall
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    This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

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  • Author Jacques Maritain
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    It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

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  • Author John Muir
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    Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

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