Famous Quotes & Sayings

James E. Faust

I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.

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.

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.

Alphonsus Liguori

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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.

Chelsea Cannon

We were gonna read the whole (Bible) together. We were gonna get baptized together.

Stanley Hauerwas

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

J. Horton

That's the date traditionally that Christ was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. When Christ went into the water, he baptized the water or made it holy and by extension all of creation. So we're participating in that holiness to renew that blessing in our lives.

Adoniram Judson

When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.

Maria Monk

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

J. M. Roberts

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.

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.

George Crabbe

Time has touched me gently in his race,/ And left no odious furrows in my face.

Joe Abate

What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.

Michelle Phillips

He could prod you gently or kick you in the ass,

Jim DooLittle

He'd let me talk and go out on a limb, and then he'd gently reel me back in.

Kathleen Camilli

On a year-on-year basis, before this number was released, housing starts are down 11 percent. So you can see they've gently rolled over, showing higher interest rates are taking their toll on some parts of the housing industry.

Steve Ward

We just kind of pushed a little bit, gently working with people with the real aloha spirit, and we were lucky.

Phil Jackson

I've been nudging him gently in the right direction, hopefully, and I think he's ready to turn the corner,

William Williams

You slapped my faceOh but so gently I smiledAt the caress.

Jim Vogel

You?d be surprised what kind of marketplace there is for gently used equipment.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

David Cornwell

We took two steps back (Tuesday). We just started out sluggish, and they tore us up.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

C. S. Lewis

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

Charles Spurgeon

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Ben Nicholson

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

George Herbert

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .