There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“You were baptized?" "My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
The LDS Church teaches that Christ's atoning sacrifice enables the resurrection of all human beings and provides an opportunity for individuals to… — John Turner Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I grew up knowing I wanted to be a member. I had already joined the church first, but since I was always… — Ora-Jay Eash Copy Share Image
What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
“—Baptism is administered by means of washing, i. e. applying the water to the subject. This application must be a true ablu… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
“Paul gives us a Biblical picture (remember I said I would try to stick to the Biblical picture). What meaning does baptism… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
“Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56)… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World… I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I was raised as a Baptist in the Bible Belt of the South. Until the age of 37, I had never heard… — Kimberly Eady Copy Share Image
Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that we've preached a 'cross' religion, and we need to preach a 'throne' religion. By that I… — Kenneth E. Hagin Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
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