Baptism Quotes

Baptism is faith in action.

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

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

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

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

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

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

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

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.

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

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.

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.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

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.

In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

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

When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.

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.

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.

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.

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

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

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.

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

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

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.

Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

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

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

An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong.

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

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them

Be baptize with the Holy Spirit.

Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.

What you're going through is not meant to hurt you, but meant to deliver you from the evil oppressing you.

We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

One Lord, one faith and one baptism.

Love is tears of joy, this is the baptism of fingers. (L'amour, c'est larme de joie, - C'est le baptême des doigts)

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

It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that the Church is Christ's own body, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.

We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne away still in the darkness of paganism, and that worried us a good deal.

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

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

The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.