Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child… — Lewis Sperry Chafer Copy Share Image
And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism. — Hyder Akbar 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
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good… — Mark Twain 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 has for its general effect the regeneration of the soul, 1 and hence belongs to the " Sacraments of the dead."… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“It was the baptism of myself, the renewal of me and by me. The water felt, finally, like it could wash away… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show… — Eva Longoria 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
[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer… — Fulgentius of Cartagena 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
Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily… — Sheldon F. Child Copy Share Image
Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to baptize little children, that the promise of salvation may be applied to them, according to Christ’s command to… — Anonymous 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
“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
“Under the leadership of religious professionals, modern worship has become passive—listening to a message and singing some songs. Seldom is there a… — Craig Olson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“The Second Council of Mileve (416) anath ematized all "who deny that new-born infants should be baptized immediately after birth." n The… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian , except… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image