Baptist General Convention

Famous quotes containing the words baptist, general and/or convention:

“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.