Quotes in the News - Baptist Standard

“Our faith motivates and inspires us, but we do not proselytize.”

Dirk Frans

Director of International Assistance Mission, a Christian aid agency that works in Afghanistan. Ten IAM workers were murdered in Afghanistan this month, and the Taliban has accused the agency of trying to convert Muslims. (AP/RNS)

“The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves, and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans, if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.”

Michael Bloomberg

New York mayor, in a speech after a city panel cleared the way for a mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built blocks from Ground Zero (RNS)

“Just because she’s sinned doesn’t mean that she’s not a part of us any more.”

Todd Stinnett

Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Morristown, Tenn., discussing the return of member Barbara Whitt after she was charged with embezzling more than $1.5 million from nearby First Baptist Church of Morristown (WVLT-TV/RNS)