Quotes About Baptism

Matthew 28:19-20—Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  (20) teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

If you haven't been baptized as an expression of your faith in Christ, do so as soon as possible, as Jesus commanded.

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

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 in religion.

When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, it transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put away, evil deeds are renounced; love, humility, and peace take the place of anger, envy, and strife. Joy takes the place of sadness, and the countenance reflects the light of heaven" (The Desire of Ages, p. 173). What a wonderful blessing our Lord has provided for each of us through the baptism of the Holy Spirit!

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

The church will not be judged by the number of baptisms or upon the size of its membership, but upon how faithful it has been to teaching the whole counsel of God.

Do all that you can to make your baptismal services a spiritual, Christ-centered experience. A new convert deserves to have this be a sacred, carefully planned, and spiritually uplifting moment. The prayers, the hymns, surely the talks that are given-all ought to be focused on the significance of this ordinance and the Atonement of Christ, which makes it efficacious.

And then we find ourselves facing a prospect Brown did not consider. If the youth of Jesus was filled in fictively only once the sonship was pushed back to physical conception and birth, mustn't the stories of the ministry have been similarly fabricated only once the sonship had been pushed back from the resurrection to the baptism? This was exactly the suggestion of Paul Couchoud, to which we shall return.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

As far as infant baptism is concerned, it must be insisted that the sacrament should be administered only where there is a firm faith present which remembers Christ's deed of salvation wrought for us once and for all. That can only happen in a living Christian community. To baptize infants without a Church is not only an abuse of the sacrament, it betokens a disgusting frivolity in dealing with the souls of the children themselves. For baptism can never be repeated.

The cross of Christ is the death which we undergo once and for all in our baptism, and it is a death full of grace.

The source of their faith lies in the once-and-for-allness of Christ's death, which they have experienced in their baptism.

The call to discipleship, or baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, means death and life. Christ's call, or baptism, means placing the Christian into a daily struggle against sin and the devil.

18 Entonces Jesús acercándose les habló en estos términos: A mí se me ha dado toda potestad en el cielo, y en la tierra; 19 Vayan pues, e instruyan a todas las naciones en el camino de la salud, bautizándolas en el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo; 20 enseñándolas a observar todas las cosas que yo les he mandado. Y estén ciertos que yo mismo estaré continuamente con ustedes hasta la consumación de los siglos.

47 Entonces dijo Pedro: ¿Quién puede negar el agua del bautismo a los que, como nosotros, han recibido también al Espíritu Santo? 48 Así que mandó bautizarlos en nombre y con el bautismo de nuestro Señor Jesucristo; y le suplicaron que se detuviese con ellos algunos días como lo hizo. 11

15 Por último les dijo: Vayan por todo el mundo: prediquen el Evangelio a todas las criaturas. 16 El que creyere, y se bautizare, se salvará; pero el que no creyere, será condenado. 17 A los que creyeren, acompañarán estos milagros: En mi nombre lanzarán los demonios; hablarán nuevas lenguas; 18 manosearán las serpientes; y si algún licor venenoso bebieren, no les hará daño; pondrán las manos sobre los enfermos, y quedarán éstos curados. 19

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

as by the favour of the sovereign those guilty of various crimes are released from prison, and each one, according to his toil and exertions, is in this or that condition of life, so too the penny, as it were by the favour of our Sovereign, is the discharge from prison of us all by baptism. Now our work is, according to our different virtues, to prepare for ourselves a different future.

In the Baptist faith, you choose to be baptized when you are ready. It's for believers only, and it's up to you. You don't just baptize an infant and make the decision for them, which is kind of cool because for a religion that can be painted as so confining, individual choice is a fundamental part of being Baptist.

A sense of guilt, as well as the need for expiation, a baptism of fire, aren't things you can claim an exclusive right to. Life differs from banking because it has debts which are paid off by running up debt with others.

You'll pass through fire, which burns, but also purges. And you'll do it alone. For were someone to support you in this, help you, take on even a scrap of that baptism of fire, that pain, that penance, they would, by the same token, impoverish you. They would deprive you of part of the expiation you desire, which would be owed to them for their involvement.