"To be baptized means to make the passage……" — Henri Nouwen
"To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to…
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As…
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being…
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...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms,…
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Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in…
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[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the…
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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering…
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by…
— Ambrose
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The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a…
— Paul Claudel
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We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that…
— Robert D. Hales
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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order…
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Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but…
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