Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel! — Winfield Scott Copy Share Image
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin’s power over me has been broken, in Jesus’ name! — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
