Baptism Quotes: top 86 famous quotes about Baptism

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He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life. — Marilynne Robinson

Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. — Mary Doria Russell

A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness. — Khushwant Singh

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ. — Michael Horton

You know it's a real salvation when Baptists use cold water. — Jared Brock

You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side. — Chloe Thurlow

If one refuses to receive baptism, it is evidence of unbelief and a rejection of God's commands. — Jordan Cooper

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. — Saint Basil

for we are by baptism brought into covenant, that we may be taught to observe all things whatsoever Christ has commanded us, — Matthew Henry

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved. — Lewis Sperry Chafer

This was a baptism into Hell. — Pepper Winters

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God. — Pope Francis

Baptism by water leads to the authorized opportunity for the constant companionship of the third member of the Godhead. — David A. Bednar

The difference between baptism and drowning is a few faithless breaths. — Anna-Marie McLemore

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work. — Eyvind Kang

Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart. — Lynn G. Robbins

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. — Ambrose Bierce

You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living. — Boyd K. Packer

And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. — Kahlil Gibran

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water. — Ignatius Of Antioch

six black Cordelias — Evelyn Waugh

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. — George Eliot

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully. — Pope Francis

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting — Mark Twain

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful. — John H. Groberg

Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood. — Abbott Eliot Kittredge

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. — H.L. Mencken

Be baptize with the Holy Spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers. — Max Lucado

Do not rest in baptism; what is it to have the water, and want the Spirit? — Thomas Watson

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith. — Watchman Nee

He'd had a great baptism into the joys of Recreation and some of the intrigue and delights it could possibly offer. — Jill Thrussell

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works?
Bunny Breckinridge: Sure. — Tim Burton

One Lord, one faith and one baptism. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The degree you need to work for GOD and to be qualify for HIS kingdom is Water and the HOLY SPIRIT Baptism — James C. Uwandu

Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord's desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. — Bruce R. McConkie

Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them — Sunday Adelaja

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart. — Max Lucado

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them. — Hippolytus Of Rome

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. — Billy Sunday

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia. — Heinrich Heine

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there. — Saint Basil

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being. — Rod Parsley

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. — Arthur Rimbaud

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo. — William Shakespeare

Girls when it says "I love you" - it's like a second baptism - It gives them a whole new heart - As at the end of the egg. — Georges Brassens

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless. — Julie Berry

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion. — Alcuin

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant. — Ambrose

He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father. — Robert D. Hales

It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain? — Tillie Olsen

When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity. — J.M. Coetzee

Baptism in the Holy Spirit belongs to them that believe and are not of this world — Sunday Adelaja

We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ. — Pope Francis

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. — Thomas Aquinas

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. — Alphonsus Liguori

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life. — Ezra Taft Benson

Baptism is faith in action. — Watchman Nee

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. — Zadie Smith

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast. — Ken Kesey

We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With soap, baptism is a good thing. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality. — Frederick William Robertson

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. — John R. Rice

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. — Henri Nouwen

Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely. — Max Lucado

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside. — Henry Ward Beecher

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer. — Isidore Of Seville

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you. — Smith Wigglesworth

From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism. — Thomas More

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified — Pope Leo I

The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. — David A. Bednar

That Christ's Baptism was not a mere form, but the fulfilling of all righteousness, proves that He descended into the water burdened with our sins. — Abraham Kuyper

After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism. — Hyder Akbar

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work. — Max Lucado

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine. — John Piper

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old. — Saint Augustine

I've had a lot of baptism by fire. — Donna Murphy

Baptism pertains to the Church alone. — Cyprian

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — Ira Gershwin

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. — George Eliot

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre. — J. Michael Straczynski