Quotes about Background

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.

Scenes which make vital changes in our neighbors' lot are but the background of our own, yet, like a particular aspect of the fields and trees, they become associated for us with the epochs of our own history, and make a part of that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness.

for the fluctuations in the background. However, within a few years we should know whether we can believe that we live in a universe that is completely self-contained and without beginning or end.