Baptism Quotes - Page 2

• As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born

  Cyprian

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

  Adoniram Judson

  Christian, Trials, Taught

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• One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Faithful, Generations

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4249, Aeterna Press

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• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Trying, Doctrine

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Pope Leo X

  Children, Sin, Christ

  "Exsurge Domine". Book by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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• 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

  Men, Water, Kingdoms

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

  Oswald Chambers

  Bible, Ecumenism, Missionary

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.137, Discovery House

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

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

  Billy Sunday

  Horse, Religion, Needs

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• [Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: "Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Mean, Men, Baptized In

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• 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.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Men, Baptized In

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

  John R. Rice

  Baptized In, People, Church

  John R. Rice (2000). “Bible Baptism”, p.3, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Kingdoms, Sin

  Thomas Hobbes (2002). “Leviathan”, p.377, Broadview Press

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

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Parent, Slave, Misfortunes

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

  Pope Leo I

  Flesh, Made

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• Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Want, Coast

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• 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

  Couple, Political, Circus

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• Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial glory: for baptism is instituted for the remission of sins; and if a person does not take the necessary steps to obtain pardon of sins, of course, he cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.

  Orson Pratt

  Men, Water, Essentials

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

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Responsibility, World, Mormonism

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• 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

  Spiritual, Reality, Way

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.58

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• When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to him, not in full but in part... Then women were baptized for men and men for women, & c.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Revelations, Possession

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• If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

  Cyprian

  Believe, Grace, Doe

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• And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

  Pope Leo I

  Spiritual, Taken, Water

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• A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Death, Men, Funeral

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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