“It is not a gathering of 'escapees' from the world, bitterly enjoying their escape, feeding their hate for the world. Listen to… — Alexander Schmemann 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
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
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth… — Martin Luther 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
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
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have… — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos 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
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from… — Cyprian 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
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — Ira Gershwin 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
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
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X 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
There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
