Quotes about Background
An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.
— AW Pink
Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.
— Elizabeth George
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
— Bishop TD Jakes
I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.
— Nicky Gumbel
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
— Josh McDowell
Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
— Edith Wharton
If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
— Abraham Lincoln
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
— Edith Wharton
I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.
— Gordon Hinckley
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
— Bishop TD Jakes
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
— Nelson Mandela
Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.
— Chris Fabry