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)

    To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.
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    Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
    —United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.