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  • 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
  • I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized. -- Billy Corgan
  • When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God. -- Andy Griffith
  • And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood. -- William Tyndale
  • 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 Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body. -- Charles Hodge
  • 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
  • However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years -- Brian De Palma
  • God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. -- John R. Rice
  • Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely. -- Max Lucado
  • Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. -- Martin Luther
  • These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
  • A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water -- Louis MacNeice
  • To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus. -- Henri Nouwen
  • 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
  • Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location. -- David Platt
  • Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • 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
  • When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he was in need of repentance, or conversion: he did it to be among people who need forgiveness, among us sinners, and to take upon himself the burden of our sins. -- Pope Francis
  • The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew. -- Stephen J. Binz
  • 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
  • The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ. -- Pope Leo XIII
  • I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12. -- Chuck Norris
  • It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped. -- Phil Robertson
  • I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian. -- Mr. T
  • The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place. -- Paul Ryan
  • I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit. -- Stephen Baldwin
  • I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic. -- Queen Latifah
  • We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority. -- David A. Bednar
  • Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff. -- Eugene H. Peterson
  • My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died. -- Sherri Shepherd
  • When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time. -- David A. Bednar
  • Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. -- Troy Polamalu
  • We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. -- Rima Fakih
  • I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24. -- John Shelby Spong
  • 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
  • When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it. -- Stanley Hauerwas
  • If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. -- Dan Brown
  • 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
  • I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches. -- Immortal Technique
  • I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame. -- Joshua
  • That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized. -- Johnny Hunt
  • [Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years. -- Brian De Palma
  • Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel! -- Winfield Scott
  • My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears. -- Tupac Shakur
  • My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die. -- Primo Levi
  • I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin's power over me has been broken, in Jesus' name! -- T. B. Joshua
  • Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. -- Dorothy Day
  • Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. -- Dorothy Day
  • I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo. -- William Shakespeare
  • All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. -- Saint Augustine
  • No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission. -- Steven J Lawson
  • The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. -- Anne Lamott
  • The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips. -- Paul Claudel
  • I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever. -- Ted Nugent
  • At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how? -- Andrew Solomon
  • I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement. -- Joshua
  • I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church. -- Mike Berenstain
  • 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
  • For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized. -- Erwin McManus
  • She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! -- Maria Monk
  • Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ. -- Philip Roberts
  • I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. -- Troy Polamalu
  • The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims. -- Maureen Dowd
  • I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college. -- Lance Berkman
  • I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services. -- Christopher Moore
  • Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff. -- Eugene H. Peterson
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