Quotes about Background
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.
- Henry B. Eyring
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.
- Harry S. Truman
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.
- Thomas Merton
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
- Woodrow Wilson
Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.
- Chris Fabry
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
The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.
- Ilaiyaraaja
I've been lucky to be born in Spain to a good family. But some team-mates reached the same position from a tough background. Football is equal, and it doesn't matter where you come from.
- Juan Mata
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.
- Beth Moore
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
- Josh McDowell