It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
I know a girl who has become a really enthusiastic Christian. I remember meeting her several years ago. She lived in a house near us. She was standing out the front smoking, not apparently interested in religious things, but she did have a respect for spiritual matters when I spoke to her. So as we talked, she expressed an interest, and began to come to church occasionally. Over the years, I have watched her come to Christ, be converted, baptized and changed in wonderful ways. It's a real joy to me when I see things like this.
I have been baptized twice- once in water. . . once in flame.
The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.
I was probably toward 8 12 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl. "
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.
Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.
All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far.
I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy. . . this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law. . . and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!
Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptized?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed. " How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized. ' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are losing their identity under the influence of a secularized culture. The need for a new evangelization, so deeply felt by my venerable Predecessor, must be valiantly reaffirmed, in the certainty that God's word is effective.
