He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father. — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled,… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a… — Lynn G. Robbins Copy Share Image
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“In any case, when I imagine baptism as the next concrete act toward my entry into the Church, no thought troubles me… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . . Faith in… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image