Southern Baptist Quotes

#1. 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.

Kinky Friedman

#2. The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

Paul Washer

#3. I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

Roger Ross Williams

#4. Yeah his being Sumerian to this group would go over like an Ozzy Osbourne/Marilyn Manson duet at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. He might as well be wearing a shit that said "Kibbles and Bits," with a heavy emphasis on the "bits" part ...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

Lynn Collins

#6. I tried not to laugh. I thought about how my Southern Baptist friends would respond to the suggestion that their entire denomination was making people gay.

Justin Lee

#7. Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.

Tom Robbins

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

Kami Garcia

#9. My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.

Aaron Paul

#10. Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you burn in hell.

Rick Gavin

#11. I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#12. Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

Pat Robertson

#13. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Missi Pyle

#14. Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

Arianna Huffington

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

Aaron Paul

#16. There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

Victoria Jackson

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

Missi Pyle

#18. The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

E. O. Wilson

#19. 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

#20. Wait, go back to that Southern Baptist part," Julia said, interrupting, as she does.
"Are you a born-again?" articulating her question as if she were asking me if I were really a headhunter or a Martian.
"Yes," I said, "but I'm not an asshole. At least not theologically speaking.

Cathleen Falsani

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

E. O. Wilson

#22. I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Willard Scott

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

Shannen Doherty

#24. Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

Jessica Simpson

#25. I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer

#26. It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#27. When you have to walk further, wherever it might be, I beg you, never to go alone anymore. I think that as a lesson for us all. I believe it was a warning. If Dad had been alone, he surely would have died.

Gigi Sedlmayer

#28. You can't have unity without diversity.

Richard Twiss

#29. There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

Peter Agre

#30. For Love surely lies heartbroken at all the tears cried in its name, the curses flung at its efforts ... there is nothing wrong with love; there is just something wrong with us.

Sinovuyo Nkonki

#31. There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Malala Yousafzai

#32. Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. You can make contact with people all day but it only seems fulfilling when it's with someone you truly enjoy.

Andersen Prunty