Sayings About Christian Baptism

#1. We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.

Adoniram Judson

#2. After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

Adoniram Judson

#3. You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No,' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.

M.R.C. Kasasian

#4. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians 4:4-6 (King James Version)

Anonymous

#5. Historically, the Christian life began with the public acknowledgment of two uncomfortable realities - evil and death - and in baptism, the Christian makes the audacious claim that neither one gets the final word.

Rachel Held Evans

#6. Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism ... We don't need a bishop's assignment to be kind. We don't need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don't need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.

Chieko N. Okazaki

#7. In the ritual of baptism, our ancestors acted out the bizarre truth of the Christian identity: We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love. There

Rachel Held Evans

#8. Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

John Stott

#9. The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.

Gary North

#10. The fact that people look at pictures so tiny on Instagram - people ask me about it popping on Instagram, but I didn't alter myself to be that. I didn't change for the screens, I've just been doing me.

Jeremy Scott

#11. You must passionately pursue your dreams for life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

J.C. Ryle

#14. Many have distinguished between Spirit baptism theologically defined as Christian initiation and Spirit baptism as an experience of renewal to be had by all believers.

Frank D. Macchia

#15. Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.

William Kershner

#16. Be baptize with the Holy Spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

Tony Campolo

#18. One Lord, one faith and one baptism.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. This name reminds us of Baptism, which should be practiced in daily tribulations and produce its effects so that we grow into a new and perfect man (cf. Eph. 4:13-15) and in this way the name of Christian be perfected until our name and Old Adam are abolished. Therefore

Martin Luther

#21. Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

N. T. Wright

#22. It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#23. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.

Hughes Oliphant Old

#24. As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

Martin Chemnitz