Children Quote by Tillie Olsen

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

— Tillie Olsen

“And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.”

— Sarah Arthur

“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

“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

“… Bless their believing happiness will make them happy; that the ocean is magical, a kingdom where we go to be human, and grateful.”

— Philip Schultz

“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

“A fleshly confession without a Spiritual conversion keeps you in the seen world.”

— Pastor Rod W. Larkins

“..you are retained as counsel for unhappy mankind. You have promised to help those in peril by sea, those in captivity, the sick and…

— Seneca

“Oh, may the Lord never let us, nor our descendants, forget what spiritual and material benefits we have received in this wilderness through Christian…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“The difference between baptism and drowning is a few faithless breaths.”

— Anna-Marie McLemore

“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and…

— Herman Melville