Quotes About Being Baptized

#1. 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

#2. In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority.

David A. Bednar

#4. Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

Martin Luther

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Aziz Ansari

#10. While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I've got car data and body data all together. It's all on the dash.

Charlie Kimball

#11. As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

Elden Henson

#12. 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

#13. Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Zora Neale Hurston

#14. All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, 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. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Anne Lamott

#15. If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Eamon Duffy

#16. I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Jessica Lange

#17. 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

#18. In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate's portrayal of the 'Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

Nick Davies

#19. When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

Yoshio Taniguchi