Baptism Quotes - Page 3

• Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Water, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.739, Aeterna Press

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• Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

  John Stott

  Christian, Water, Spirit

  John Stott (2013). “Baptism and Fullness: The Work of the Holy Spirit Today”, p.57, InterVarsity Press

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• Baptism is faith in action.

  Watchman Nee

  Action, Faith In Action

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.103, CLC Publications

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• Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

  Thomas Adams

  Father, Son, Essence

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.171

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• Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

  Max Lucado

  Car, Kickers, Tire

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• The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Baptized In, Community, Church

  "Dominus Iesus". 2000.

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  World, Firsts, Notable

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Book, Wine

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• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Names

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

  Max Lucado

  Father

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• As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Christian, Luther, Priests

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• The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

  Richard G. Scott

  Commitment, Baptized In, People

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• With soap, baptism is a good thing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2079, Library of Alexandria

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• When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Blessed, Blessing

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.87, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.

  Cyprian

  Men, Thinking, Sin

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• Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Death, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Sermons on Women of the Bible”, p.274, Hendrickson Publishers

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• You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Thinking, Adoption, Grace

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• 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.

  Matthew Henry

  Jesus, Kings, Atonement

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.732

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• 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

  Beautiful, Mercy Of God, Justice

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• Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Charles, Spurgeon H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Faith, Horse, Children

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• 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

  Baby, Fighting, Boys

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• All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating with the sacrifice of life itself... This martyrdom of ordinary life constitutes a particularly important witness in the secularized society of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love which every Christian, like Paul, must fight without flagging: the race to spread the Gospel that involves us until our death. May the Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us in our daily witness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Queens, Stars

  Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus, w2.vatican.va. October 28, 2007.

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• When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Boys, Men

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