Baptismal Quotes

#1. Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.

Honore De Balzac

#2. She looked like she wanted to take her right up to the baptismal waters and introduce her to some redemption.

Holly Cupala

#3. Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Nicolas Chamfort

#4. Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

Miguel Syjuco

#5. I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.

James E. Faust

#6. Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.

Neal A. Maxwell

#7. When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.

Robert D. Hales

#8. Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

Cyprian

#9. Somewhere in the dead space between house and shelter civilians became soldiers.

Sara Novic

#10. ...
I kiss Allyson.
I complete the history that came before us, and in doing so, begin one all of our own.
Double happiness: I get it now.

Gayle Forman

#11. I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.

Chrissie Fit

#12. So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

Peter J. Carroll

#13. The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction.

Adler

#14. There is no 'out there', only 'here' exists.

Stephen Richards

#15. When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

Victoria Pendleton

#16. As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#17. It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Saint Augustine

#18. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius