Baptism Quote by Herman Bavinck

“When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and…

— Liturgy Training Publications

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

“Question of Baptism”

— Joseph-Marie Perrin

Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

— Stephen Charnock

“The River of Baptism I met, my spiritual adoption confirmed. The changing dramas in my life I experienced. The Holy language preceded my salvation…

— Darmie Orem

“True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or…

— Richard Rohr

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another…

— Tony Campolo

“Baptism is a symbolic narrative not only of incorporation into Christ but also of ongoing life in Christ. Although a once-for-all death to sin…

— Michael J. Gorman

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

— Ira Gershwin

And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism…

— Pope Leo I

“Baptism is a Sacra ment instituted by Christ, in which, by the out ward washing of the body with water, with in vocation of…

— Joseph Pohle

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that…

— Thomas Keating