George Eliot Quotes About Baptism

• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Grief, Baptism

  "Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

• 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

  Compassion, Years, Fire

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.544, George Eliot

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

  George Eliot

  Baptism, Conscious, Consecration

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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