- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] We were a religious people on Waltons Mountain. The church was the center of our social, as well as our spiritual lives. Each year there would come a great religious revival when each of us would be called upon to examine our conscience and to receive salvation. It was a time of joyous reunion, of intense religious fervor, and it was looked forward to with great anticipation by everyone except my father.
- The Grandfather: [On witnessing Yancy Tucker getting baptised in the water] Yancy just come to church to get out of the rain. He's ended up wet all over.
- John Walton, Sr.: I just don't understand, and I'm never gonna understand what being thrown in the water and having a preacher say a few words over me is gonna do. I mean, all it does is get me wet.
- Rev. Ezekiel L. Henshaw: You have two choices! Your house in heaven or an eternity in hell!
- [John angrily leaves the church, Olivia follows]
- Olivia Walton: John!
- John Walton, Sr.: I'll not be shouted at.
- Olivia Walton: It's your soul he's fighting for!
- John Walton, Sr.: I'll do my own fighting.