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I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith

Church, Crush, Muslim

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
E. O. Wilson

Read, Bible, Southern

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

Life, Religion, Islam

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Between, Might, Cross

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

Long, Enough, Become

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
Pat Robertson

Southern, Brought

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

Church, Lived, Definitely

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

God, Jesus, Moral

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
Octavia Butler

Fact, Conscience, Early

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
Beth Ditto

Time, Joy, Holy

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
Bear Grylls

Wanted, Growing, Hood

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.
Sherri Shepherd

Music, Time, Start

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
Whoopi Goldberg

Family, Jewish, Catholic

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.
Brittany Murphy

Faith, School, Christian

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
John Grisham

Family, Fun, Everything

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Al Sharpton

Age, God, Today

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes

Mother, Father, Methodist

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

Experience, Father, Real

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
T. D. Jakes

Faith, Both, Ideas

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

Study, Talk, Culture

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
Janis Ian

Music, School, Black

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
Tim McGraw

Strong, Background, Yea

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Southern, Churches, Sang

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

Point, Republican, View

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

Peace, Joy, Child

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Tom T. Hall

Religion, Jewish, Catholic

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
Willard Scott

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
John Shelton Reed

Music, Country, Support

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.
Michael Eisner

God, School, College

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.
Josh Henderson

Life, Men, History

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