Writing Quote by Alan Kreider

“This, the Christians believed, was God’s work and not theirs. So they did not engage in frantic action to save those who were not…

— Alan Kreider

“Prominent Christians in Constantine's time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a "major"sin that couldn't be forgiven of those already…

— Thomas F. Madden

“From the earliest writings of the apostles, through the second and third centuries, the Church resisted military involvement and refused engagement at the political…

— Keith Giles

“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”

— JESUS

“when the Greeks, having arrested the slaves of Christian catechumens, then used force against them, in order to learn from them some secret thing…

— The Church Fathers

“St. Augustine repeatedly speaks of the power inherent in the desire for Baptism. " I do not hesitate," he says in his treatise De…

— Joseph Pohle

“If his contrition is not perfect, the unworthily received Sacrament of Baptism can re cover its effects only in connection with Penance, which blots…

— Joseph Pohle

“Priest. Were you not both, some years ago, Augustine friars? Voes. Yes. Priest. How came you to quit the bosom of the church of…

— John Foxe

“The church may not function as a fearful border guard, but rather as one who brings good tidings (Romans 10:15; Isaiah 52:7 ... For…

— G.C. Berkouwer

But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

“forsaken him. The priests who serve the”

— Zondervan

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if…

— Isidore of Seville