Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neill Pickering

As a coming-out party, it is a baptism of fire.

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.

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.

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.

Max Lucado

Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.

John Piper

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

Martin Luther

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

Malcolm Midgely

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

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Beth Moore

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Benjamin Hoff

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Bob Marley

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Madeleine Albright

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Billy Sherwood

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

Charlton Heston

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Byron Katie

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Adolph Gottlieb

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Anthony Anderson

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Fanny Burney

credulity is the sister of innocence ...

Jewel

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Jean Racine

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.