Just Baptized Quotes

#1. The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

Paul Claudel

#2. I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Mr. T

#3. The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.

Stephen J. Binz

#4. My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.

Primo Levi

#5. There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized

Saint Augustine

#6. I thought he jaunted around on yachts and baptized babies all day. Babies that would one day grow up to be swimsuit models, thanks to his touch.

R.S. Grey

#7. Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

Winfield Scott

#8. She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

Maria Monk

#9. By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.

India.Arie

#10. Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Dorothy Day

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

Rick Warren

#12. 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.

Saint Augustine

#13. [Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost - while thinking they are saved because they belong to the church, or were baptized.

Billy Graham

#14. I didn't want her to be like me, robbed of innocence and idealism, baptized in the bloody waters of randomness and cruelty, the fabric of trust forever torn.

Patricia Cornwell

#15. My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

Sherri Shepherd

#16. 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.

Brigham Young

#17. The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Ambrose

#18. God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

John R. Rice

#19. I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

Queen Latifah

#20. Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Eugene H. Peterson

#21. William Shakespeare ... was baptized on April 26, 1564. When he was born is disputed, but anyone who argues that it was after this date is just being difficult.

Richard Armour

#22. You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized in His Church ... You just need to stay in, pressing forward with a brightness of hope to your heavenly home.

Julie B. Beck

#23. Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

Troy Polamalu

#24. We are not Protestants any more - just 'non-Catholics'! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.

Leonard Ravenhill

#25. We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

Rima Fakih

#26. I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.

Joshua

#27. 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 anything to avoid martyrdom were apostates had no valid subsequent ministry.

Thomas F. Madden

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

Johnny Hunt

#29. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Beyonce Knowles

#30. [Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins.

Irenaeus Of Lyons

#31. The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

Charles Hodge

#32. Even if Christians are completely surrounded by sin, they should still fight against it. Some people think they're Christians because they've been baptized. These people give their desires free rein and don't care about conquering their sins. They merely follow their own cravings.

Martin Luther

#33. The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott

#34. You won't cut my son's throat,' said the Unseelie King, gazing down at Julian with a look of disdain. 'You're a Shadowhunter. You have a code of honor.'
'You're thinking of Shadowhunters the way they used to be,' said Julian. 'I came of age in the Dark War. I was baptized in blood and fire.

Cassandra Clare

#35. I was baptized Catholic but I was Church of Oprah. If you are a person on

Shonda Rhimes

#36. A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

Alphonsus Liguori

#37. I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

Ted Nugent

#38. Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking? Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated.

Joel Coen

#39. I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

Stanley Hauerwas

#40. In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not see how an infant could properly receive this ordinance as an expression of his or her faith.

John Piper

#41. All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

Saint Augustine

#42. I wanted to be baptized in his skin, purified in his love. I was a sinner, or worse.

Stylo Fantome

#43. [Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#44. A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.

Charles Spurgeon

#45. Baptism is done at the beginning of your faith journey, not the middle or the end. You don't have to have everything together to be baptized ... You just have to grasp God's grace. God's grace is enough.

Rachel Held Evans

#46. I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

Oprah Winfrey

#47. We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in keeping His commandments. He was baptized to show us that we should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Robert D. Hales

#48. I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

Elana Meyers

#49. No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

Steven J. Lawson

#50. John baptized with[37] water, but you will be baptized with[38] the Holy Spirit.

Anonymous