If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark… — Elaine L. Jack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible,… — Liturgy Training Publications Copy Share Image
Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we… — Keith K. Hilbig Copy Share Image
But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and a light… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying… — Anonymous 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
“The Abundant Chamber by Stewart Stafford Divest yourself of sword and coin, And burn all your illusions and airs, Let the cave… — Stewart Stafford 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
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,… — Origen Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Holy Water A new day starts with a new you, And I ain't talkin' about born again nonsense. A bigot… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
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
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
“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
We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to… — J. C. Ryle 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
Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Baptism is a Sacra ment instituted by Christ, in which, by the out ward washing of the body with water, with in… — Joseph Pohle 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
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been… — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
The duende…Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the… — Anonymous 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
The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments.… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man,… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I can say, through the power of the Spirit that wherever God can get a people that will come together in one… — William J. Seymour Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image