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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast. -- Ken Kesey
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
Baptism is faith in action. -- Watchman Nee
Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart. -- Max Lucado
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith. -- Watchman Nee
Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers. -- Max Lucado
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism. -- Ambrose
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
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
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. -- Billy Sunday
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. -- Ira Gershwin
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
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
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
Baptism pertains to the Church alone. -- Cyprian
With soap, baptism is a good thing. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified -- Pope Leo I
Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work. -- Max Lucado
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. -- Thomas Aquinas
God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. -- John R. Rice
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Baptism by water leads to the authorized opportunity for the constant companionship of the third member of the Godhead. -- David A. Bednar
There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you. -- Smith Wigglesworth
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ. -- Michael Horton
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
Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lordâ??s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved. -- Lewis Sperry Chafer
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. -- Saint Basil
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
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism." -- Saint Basil
Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer. -- Isidore of Seville
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. -- Cyprian
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
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life. -- Vance Havner
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. -- Saint Augustine
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
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
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
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
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. -- Jakob Bohme
Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins. -- Elaine L. Jack
We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life. -- Gregory Palamas
We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians. -- J. C. Ryle
A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved. -- Charles Spurgeon
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd. -- Max Lucado
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs. You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person. -- Brian D. McLaren
The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. -- David A. Bednar
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. -- Samuel Butler
The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost. -- James E. Faust
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. -- J. Michael Straczynski
In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble. -- Eva Longoria
In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living. -- Tony Campolo
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. -- Max Heindel
I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice. -- Frans de Waal
I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water. -- James E. Faust
The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the Holy Ghost. The power can come upon a person before baptism; it is the convincing witness that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. -- David A. Bednar
The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation. -- Thomas Keating
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. -- Abraham Verghese
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life. -- Henry B. Eyring
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. -- Adoniram Judson
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
One Lord, one faith and one baptism. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I've had a lot of baptism by fire. -- Donna Murphy
Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful. -- John H. Groberg
Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again. -- Frank Miller
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. -- Henri Nouwen
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine. -- John Piper
We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ. -- Pope Francis
Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully. -- Pope Francis
After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism. -- Hyder Akbar
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched. -- Tillie Olsen
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. -- Ambrose Bierce
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. -- Pope Leo X
Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. -- Zadie Smith
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. -- George Eliot
You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living. -- Boyd K. Packer
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
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
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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. -- Abbott Eliot Kittredge
The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being. -- Rod Parsley
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. -- Julie Berry
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. -- Heinrich Heine
Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion. -- Alcuin
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. -- Lynn G. Robbins
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage. -- N. T. Wright
Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
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. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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
A true spirituality is convinced that, against all odds, ecstasy, not misery, is our destiny. Spirituality is baptism by immersion in the stunningness and promise and beauty of life. -- Daniel Maguire
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
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
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized -- Saint Augustine
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
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism. -- Saint Augustine
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. -- Haruki Murakami
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat. -- Alister E. McGrath
Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior. -- Max Lucado
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. -- Max Heindel
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. -- E.L. Mascall
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death. -- Martin Luther
If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life. -- Justin Martyr
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism. -- Peter Ackroyd
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism. -- Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism. -- Ahmir Questlove Thompson

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