Baptism Quote by Louis Berkhof

“We cannot separate the water from the Word. We would not dare to baptize with water without the Word. In the words of Luther,…

— G.H. Gerberding

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism…

— John Stott

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

I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth…

— Martin Luther

“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

“The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of…

— Orson Pratt

“That Christ's Baptism was not a mere form, but the fulfilling of all righteousness, proves that He descended into the water burdened with our…

— Abraham Kuyper

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

— Ignatius of Antioch

“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of the world,…

— Alexander Schmemann

“According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while the sacramental…

— Joseph Pohle