Baptism Quotes · Page 10

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

— Max Lucado

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

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

— John R. Rice

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

— Zadie Smith

The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the…

— David A. Bednar

He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have…

— Saint Augustine

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking…

— Saint Basil

“If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming…

— John Calvin

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

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of…

— Questlove

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

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

Baptism is faith in action.

— Watchman Nee

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.

— Max Lucado

From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought…

— Thomas Hobbes

“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

Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part…

— Peter Ackroyd

A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into…

— Charles Spurgeon

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

— John H. Groberg

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

— John Piper

Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have…

— Heber J. Grant

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That…

— Vance Havner