Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

Stephen Baldwin

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Saint Basil

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

Saint Augustine

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Malcolm Midgely

One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.

Joss Whedon

She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not quite as little as the girls I'm used to writing, but she's definitely one of them in the sense of she'll undergo that kind of baptism of fire that used to be relegated to the male gender.

Joe Battista

We did that on purpose. We wanted to give them baptism by fire and I'd say so far we passed the test so far.

Abraham Verghese

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Ambrose Bierce

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

Alphonsus Liguori

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

David Lipe

Our schedule is a load and it's a baptism by fire. We have no easy non-conference matches.

Jim Baron

(Last year) definitely helps. Will Daniels had to step up; we had a number of guys that had to step up. That certainly helps you, because they went through a baptism by fire and got some quality minutes. Now, you have to continue to build continuity and continue to build chemistry with each and every game.

Tim Madden

We've been practicing officially for only a few days, so it's hard to predict exactly what kind of performances we may see from our guys this weekend. Putting them out there, especially the freshmen, is sort of like a baptism by fire. I'm interested to see how they respond.

George Will

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Terrie Williams

(Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voice is a torch in the wilderness.

Charles Spurgeon

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Charles Spurgeon

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Charles Spurgeon

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

Charles Portis

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.