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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Baptists do not have popes, and other quotes

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“Baptists do not have popes. They never put anybody where they can’t put him down. And another thing: Baptists never ride a horse without a bridle.” -- J. B. Gambrell at the 1919 SBC meeting

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.” -- Martin Luther

“If salvation was ‘by chance’, then no man on earth would ever be saved.” -- Mike McInnis

“If anybody is coming to church just to eat, they'd do better to stay at home.” -- Nell Parrish

“Careless ordination of the unqualified has been a fruitful source of trouble.” -- John Crowley

“An idol is anything you love more than God, fear more than God, and serve more than God. Never be idle about idols in your life.” -- Steven Lawson

“Jesus doesn’t take sides, he takes over.” -- Attributed to several different people, original source unknown

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes” -- Henry David Thoreau

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” -- H. L. Mencken

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.” -- Winston Churchill

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -- Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The fear of God, Scripture says, cast out all other fears. To be paralyzed by fear, or to be so outraged by fear that we no longer are able to love our neighbor, is not of Christ.” -- John Stonestreet and Shane Morris, on Breakpoint

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