Quotes in the News

Out Loud

image_pdfimage_print

"I'm a priest in the village of the damned."

Nancy Sehested

One of the first ordained Southern Baptist women, now a chaplain at a maximum-security prison in North Carolina (ABP/RNS)

"We fool ourselves … into thinking the world is hard to understand, that it is a puzzle, that it is complicated. The world certainly is complex, but it is not complicated. It is as simple to understand as Cain and Abel, as Jacob and Esau, as Jesus and Judas. What we lack is not a sharper brain but a more discerning soul."

Richard Bridges

Retired Kentucky pastor

"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay."

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president of the United States


Sign up for our weekly edition and get all our headlines in your inbox on Thursdays


"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."

Coretta Scott King

The late human rights activist (GodIssues)

"Does this mean you will ask 'people on the street' similar questions about the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, the doctrine of sheol among some Jews, the doctrine of 'a new birth' among evangelicals, the doctrine of 'glossolalia' among Charismatics or the doctrine of 'preaching to people in hell' among some Christians?"

Welton Gaddy

President of the Interfaith Alliance, criticizing a TV station for asking local residents about Mitt Romney and obscure Mormon doctrines (ABP/RNS)

 

 


We seek to connect God’s story and God’s people around the world. To learn more about God’s story, click here.

Send comments and feedback to Eric Black, our editor. For comments to be published, please specify “letter to the editor.” Maximum length for publication is 300 words.

More from Baptist Standard