Famous quotes containing the words primitive, baptist and/or churches:
“It was a very primitive kind of harbor, where boats were drawn up amid the stumps,such a one, methought, as the Argo might have been launched in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the 20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)