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 have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by
    convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”
    —Democritus (c. 460–400 B.C.)