“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.” TryingFirstsOrderChristFailingBirthHolyLaysScriptureDoctrineMysteriousRelatePassagesBaptismHoly ScripturesEfficacy Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition) Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)” MenSpiritualSpiritWaterBornGraceHolySaintFleshKingdomsHoly SpiritSpiritual LifeKingdom Of GodBaptismBorn AgainRegeneration Author:Thomas Aquinas
“True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.” PeopleGivingSpiritualSufferingFoundLeaderGreatnessHolyCostOfficeAimPainfulFocusedTitlesService To OthersBaptismTrue LeaderPerksTrue LeadershipSpiritual LeaderTrue GreatnessGiving Yourself Author:J. Oswald Sanders
“In this matter of baptism - if I may be pardoned for saying it - I can only conclude that all the doctors have been in error from the time of the apostles. . . . All the doctors have ascribed to the water a power which it does not have and the holy apostles did not teach.” IfsMayDoeHas BeensI CanMatterWaterTeachHolyDoctorsErrorsApostlesBaptism Author:Huldrych Zwingli
“If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.” IfsBodyMightSpiritBeliefChristAcceptingDivineHolyCapacityTransformationRedemptionHoly SpiritMysticalDnaFullnessBaptismBody Of Christ Author:Thomas Keating
“I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the Cross, the Cross--God's hammer, God's fire.” KnowsWorldStoriesSpiritJesusChurchSinSimpleFireHolyArgumentCrossesIntellectBelieverSeparationTheologyConquerHoly SpiritConvinceHammersBaptismSabbathJesus LoveConsecration Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.” WholeGovernmentEarthChristianReligiousHolyAuthoritySalvationGhostCarrieRebellionOrthodoxSacramentsHoly GhostBaptismDamnationPerditionLegitimate Government Author:John Adams
“The trouble with us is that we've preached a 'cross' religion, and we need to preach a 'throne' religion. By that I mean that people have thought they were supposed to remain at the cross. Some have received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, have backed up to the cross, and have stayed there ever since...The cross is actually a place of defeat, whereas the Resurrection is a place of triumph. When you preach the cross, you're preaching death, and you leave people in death.” PeopleNeedsMeanSpiritTroubleHolyCrossesDefeatTriumphHoly SpiritResurrectionPreachingThronesBaptism Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
“Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service while the former solves the problem of life (naturally it will affect service too).” MenProblemAbleSpiritPurposeDyingHolySolveBelieverFormerHoly SpiritLatterFillingBaptismThirstyImpart Book:The Spiritual Man Source: The Spiritual Man
“As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.” Has BeensFatherNamesBeliefGivenSonHolyOffersPraiseGhostSaviorConfessionCreedsHoly GhostBaptismBaptizedDoxology Author:Saint Basil
“The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'” PersonsHandsSpiritSinActingHolyAuthorityAvailableGhostSavingRevelationsHoly GhostBaptismPriesthoodOrdinancesImmersionRemission Author:David A. Bednar
“The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.” KnowsPersonsHas BeensGivenLordHonestHolyGhostManifestationRevelationsGrantsEntitledHoly GhostBaptismHonest Person Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveFeltWaterHoursReligiousGrowingNew YorkHolyPureHotLaysJazzDon't BelieveHotelBathsJordanBaptismTubsHoly WaterHot Baths Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar