And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics]… — Irenaeus of Lyons 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
In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for… — Henry B. Eyring 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
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
“Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the… — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the… — Huldrych Zwingli Copy Share Image
We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of… — Justin Martyr 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
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
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having… — Thomas C. Oden 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
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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