“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.” GodFaithChristianityBirthTheologyCatholicismBaptismInfant Baptism Book:Unless You Become Like This Child Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“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.” FaithChristianityTheologyCatholicismBaptismInfant Baptism Book:Unless You Become Like This Child Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“The uneasy conscience that many Christians have, and the anxiety based on it, do not come about because they are sinners and backsliders but because they have stopped believing in the truth and efficacy of their beliefs; they measure the power of faith by their own weakness, they project God's world into their own psychological makeup instead of letting God measure them. They do something that Christians are forbidden to do; they observe faith from the outside; they doubt the power of hope; they deprive themselves of the power of love; and they lie down to rest in the chasm between the demands of Christianity and their own failure, in a chasm that, for a Christian, is no place at all. Is it any wonder that anxiety seizes them on account of this placelessness?” GodFaithPeaceMoralityAnxietyGuilt Book:The Christian and Anxiety Source: The Christian and Anxiety