35 quotes found
“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the...”
“Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesnt need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. Its amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today w...”
“Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall recieve the gift of the Holy Spirit." ACTS 2: 38”
“We are members of Gods family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.”
“One Lord, one faith and one baptism.”
“I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”
“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own resp...”
“The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.”
“I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I thin...”
“I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I ha...”
“Under the leadership of religious professionals, modern worship has become passivelistening to a message and singing some songs. Seldom is there a call to service or an invitation to trust Christ. ...”
“Simple, powerful, poignant, the Sign of the Cross is a mnemonic device like the Mass, in which we sit down to table with one another and remember the Last Supper, or a baptism, where we remember Jo...”
“Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them”
“Be baptize with the Holy Spirit.”
“Prominent Christians in Constantine's time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a "major"sin that couldn't be forgiven of those already baptized. Others felt anyone who did ...”
“We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized to take the meal; one needed to repent to take the meal; on...”
“The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other word...”
“Baptism in the Holy Spirit belongs to them that believe and are not of this world”
“Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, ...”
“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place of the multiple, complicated cleansing rites of stoicheic order is itself a si...”
