Baptism Quote by Watchman Nee Download Open image “Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.” — Watchman Nee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baptism Expression Faith Inspirational Inward Religion
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Baptism is, in fact, much more than a ritual conferring membership in a community, as many people conceive it nowadays. It is a process… — Peter Seewald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which… — Elaine L. Jack Copy Share Image
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“That which they have need of . . . let it be given them day by day without fail. Ezra 6:9 If we really trust God, we shall expect to bear unaided the spiritual burden both of our own needs and of those of the work. We must not secretly hope for support from some human source. Our faith is… — Watchman Nee Copy Share
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing! — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism… — Bill Hamon Copy Share
True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins -… — James D'arcy Copy Share
I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be… — Kip McKean Copy Share Image
Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for… — Hippolytus of Rome Copy Share Image
