Baptism Quote by Ira Gershwin

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism…

— George Eliot

“In infant baptism it was confessed that conversion and regeneration differ, and conversion is ordinarily a coming to consciousness of that new life which…

— Herman Bavinck

Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Stephen Charnock

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

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

— Maya Tiwari

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

— Paulo Freire

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when…

— Mike Mason

May new sufferings torment your soul.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

— J. C. Ryle

“Enduring suffering can become a gift because it is an opportunity for us to grow from who we are into who God intends for…

— Darci J. Steiner