Baptism quotes

Baptism

125 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian

"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude."

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Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher

"For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism."

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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian

"If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
Baptism

"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 words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death."

World Christian Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever."

Angel Faithful Baptism
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Baptism

"When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to him, not in full but in part... Then women were baptized for men and men for women, & c."

Men Revelations Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord."

Church Wickedness Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born."

Children Order Baptism
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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
Baptism

"Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith."

Men Giving Baptism
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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
Baptism

"Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God."

Jesus Baptism Justice Of God
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Baptism

"Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth."

Needs Taste Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic."

Mother Church Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond."

Children Church Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism."

Son Catholic Baptism
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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
Baptism

"Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation."

Men Giving Up Baptism
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Baptism

"A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side."

Real Stories Baptism
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Baptism

"Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized."

Prayer Humility Baptism
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Baptism

"This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it."

Light Honor Baptism
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Baptism

"It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing."

Blessing Special Baptism
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