“Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".” WayBelieveMatterFactsShowsBeliefInterestingChristianityFieldsAmountBuiltArgumentRaisedDefenseSatanLogicalMassiveSouthernMechanismBelieve In MeShow MeVery InterestingBaptistsMushroomsDefense MechanismsSouthern Baptist Author:Bill Hicks
“Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.” PersonsLongStatesChurchChristianityPrinciplesAtheismWorshipIdealsPositive AtheismCivilityBaptistsFree State Author:George W. Bush
“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!” IfsLittlesDoneBitsChristianityPrejudiceGenuinePreachingGeorgiaBaptistsBrethrenFacetious Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There is hope in forgiveness” ChristianHopeReligiousChristianityForgivenessPastorBaptistsThere Is HopeLord Forgive Me Author:John Piper
“Your mind was made to know and love God.” KnowsLoveMindMadeGodChristianReligiousChristianityAnd LoveGod LovePastorTheologianBaptists Author:John Piper
“The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.” NeedsDoeSaidMatterWholeRealityTodayBeliefReligiousChristianitySacredConvincedLionsPreacherSplitsSecularCagesBaptistsCagedAccommodationsPersonal BeliefsReligious TruthSpurgeon Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Prayer can never be in excess.” ChristianReligiousPrayerChristianityExcessPreacherBaptistsChristian Prayer Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.” WellsMeanChristianityHusbandSouthernPopeBaptistsYour HusbandSouthern Baptist Author:Arianna Huffington