Baptism Quotes

Baptism Quote of the day

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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

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.

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

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

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

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.

Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

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

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

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.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.

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.

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.

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

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

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

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.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

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

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

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

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

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

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.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

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

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

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

Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

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

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

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

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

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

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.

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.

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.