Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better."
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Baptists
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William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."
Octavia Butler
Author, Novelist
"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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"Baptists are only funny underwater."
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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."
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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!"
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"Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?"
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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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"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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"There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world."
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