Baptism Quotes - Page 5

• I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

  James D'arcy

  Real, War, Reading

  "‘Spotlight’s Brian d’Arcy James On Journalism Versus Acting & Playing A Nerd – Q&A". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. November 3, 2015.

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• 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.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Heart, Adults

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

  Hyder Akbar

  Uncles, Ambush

  "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Humility, Forgiving

  "Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

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• Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

  John H. Groberg

  Meaningful, Jesus, Saving

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• The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.

  Gary North

  Christian, Goal, Long

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Prayer, Thinking

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• 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.

  William Booth

  Fire, Soul, Purpose

  William Booth (1890). “Salvation Soldiery: A Series of Addresses on the Requirements of Jesus Christ's Service”

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• We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Blessing, Names, People

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

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grace, May, Born Again

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• Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service while the former solves the problem of life (naturally it will affect service too).

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Dying, Able

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.359, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a true Christian without being a disciple also. I taught that, to be baptized, you must first make the decision to be a disciple, and then be baptized. I taught that their baptism was invalid because a retroactive understanding of repentance and baptism was not consistent with Scripture.

  Kip McKean

  Christian, Decision, Understanding

  Revolution Through Restoration, 1992.

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• 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.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Hot, Gone

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• 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.

  Georges Brassens

  Girl, Love You, Heart

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• [Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.

  Louis Berkhof

  Water Of Life, Divine Power, Common

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

  John Piper

  Doctrine, Primaries

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.155, B&H Publishing Group

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• 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, Suffering

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

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• To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Jesus, Grateful

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• This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.

  Brigham Young

  Light, Honor, Doctrine

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• Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Justice Of God, Christ

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• 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.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Giving, Doe

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

  Saint Basil

  Water, Grace, Spirit

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• ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Promise

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• Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal. life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if he continue as a heretic after having been baptized.

  Fulgentius of Cartagena

  Home, Heaven, Church

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