Meaningful Baptism Quotes, Verses And Sayings

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“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
– E M Forster

“Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.”
– Francis Thompson

“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”
– Galatians 3:26, 27

“For ‘the Spirit breathes where He wills, and thou hearest His voice, but canst not tell whence He cometh or whither He goeth.’ He blesses the body that is baptized, and the water that baptizes. Despise not, therefore, the Divine laver, nor think lightly of it, as a common thing, on account of the use of water. For the power that operates is mighty, and wonderful are the things that are wrought thereby.”
– Gregory

“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state”
– Ira Gershwin

“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

“Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman’s beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to his wife, so baptism symbolizes our covenant with Christ.”
– J.E.B. Spredemann

“Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.”
– Jerome

“I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.”
– John Piper

“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

“John’s baptism…was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance… This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John’s baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism.”
– John Piper

“God’s people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.”
– John R. Rice

“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

“I want you to keep in mind that I’m still in the process of changing, I’m going to share with you my viewpoint today, I may change it in 2 weeks or in 2 years, I don’t know…I’m just not sure I’ve yet fully worked out a scenario that I can live with long term. But here are my best thoughts on the subject…From time to time we will have a valid experience with an invalid label. At this time my perception is that that is what has occurred with the issue of the baptism of the Holy Spirit…At this point in time I have come full circle from an evangelical theology of filling of the Spirit, through an experience and a theology that embraced what we would call classic Pentecostal…now I’ve come back to a place where I think I started theologically, but I’ve added a dimension of experience.”
– John Wimber

“Fascism wants baptism coast to coast.”
– Ken Kesey

“Five types of baptism are mentioned in the New Testament, though only two of the five have to do with water. No wonder people become confused.”
– Larry E Dryer

“Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.”
– Lewis Sperry Chafer

“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

“But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
– Matthew 19:14

“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:”
– Matthew 3:11

“Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
– Matthew 3:13-17

“Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.”
– Max Lucado

“Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.”
– Max Lucado

“Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.”
– Max Lucado

“Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.”
– Max Lucado

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