quotations about baptism
Believing and being baptized are the two footsteps of one complete step: believing is one foot, and being baptized is the other, and these make one complete step.
WITNESS LEE
Rising Up to Preach the Gospel
The Spaniards in Mexico and Peru used to baptize Indian infants and then immediately dash their brains out: by this means they secured these infants went to Heaven.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Why I Am Not a Christian
The sacrament of baptism is like the gate which introduces us to Christian life; it is the fundamental and radical qualification for receiving all the other sacraments.
FATHER GABRIEL OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN, O.C.D.
Divine Intimacy
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. DYER
Baptism: The Believer's First Obedience
Baptism has always been a compound act absorbing cultural patterns into itself: it has taken on definite shape in various cultures, shaping those cultures in turn.
AIDAN KAVANAGH
The Shape of Baptism
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.
POPE LEO X
statement issued June 15, 1520