Allies Quote by Alister E. McGrath

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

— Elie Wiesel

“Further, any exclusivistic claims for the sole propriety of some one mode of administering baptism are gratuitous. For any mode of relating the water…

— Meredith Kline

And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the…

— Bible

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he…

— Bible

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not…

— Ambrose

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

— Ignatius of Antioch

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

— Anonymous

“And dipped himself,” says [the Scripture], “seven times in Jordan.” It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was…

— The Church Fathers

When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he was in…

— Pope Francis

I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see…

— Robert Newton Peck

Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that…

— Taylor Caldwell