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Baptism Quotes by Saint Augustine
- For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in…
- No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
- Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
- One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we…
- What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down…
- The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous,…
- Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought…
- Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics…
- I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with…
- Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness…
- Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation…
- It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;…
- There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive…
More Baptism Quotes
- When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,… — Tertullian
- I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it… — Saint Augustine
- 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
- After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been… — Adoniram Judson
- For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness… — Martin Luther
- You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins,… — Saint John Chrysostom
- Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot
- And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes… — Justin Martyr