Quotes on Baptists

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

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

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

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.

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.