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Twenty Five Quotes From the Saints about Baptism

May 14, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

When we are baptized, we begin our faith journey. For some, it begins as when we are infants. For others, the journey is preceded by a spiritual experience during which we feel called to follow Jesus.

If you are exploring the teachings of the Church, you need to know about the Sacrament of Baptism.

The following quotes will help you ponder the mystery of the Sacrament of Baptism.

1. Our Lord made a covenant with us through baptism in order to give us eternal life.

St. Basil the Great

2. We receive the sacrament of baptism only once because there was only one death and one resurrection for the salvation of the world, and baptism is its symbol.

St. Basil the Great

3. Through the sacrament of baptism you have become a temple of the Holy Spirit. Do not drive away so great a guest by evil conduct and become again a slave to the devil, for your liberty was bought by the blood of Christ.

St. Leo the Great, Pope

4. He who is reborn in baptism is a new man.

St. Peter Damien, Bishop and Doctor

5. Baptism is God’s most beautiful and magnificent gift. It is a called a gift because it is conferred on those who bring nothing of their own.

St. Augustine

6. The soul is regenerated in the Sacred waters of baptism and this becomes God’s child.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

7. I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will Baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

St. John the Baptist

Rome – The painting of Baptism of Christ by Daniele da Volterra in church San Pietro in Montorio from 16. cent.

8. We baptize our infants, though they are not defiled by sin, so that they too may be given holiness, righteousness; adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ and membership in Him.

St. John Chrysostom

9. Let your baptism be your armor; your faith , your helmet; your love, your spear; your patient endurance, your analogy (spiritual armor).

St. Ignatius of Antioch

10. Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

St. Thomas Aquinas

11. I received the Sacrament of Baptism with such joy that only angels could describe!

St. Josephine Bakhita

12. Baptism is a beautiful mystery, revealing God’s love for us.

St. John Paul II

13. Through baptism we are introduced to the life of grace.

St. Teresa of Avila

14. Baptism signifies both a new birth and a new beginning.

St. Augustine

15. Baptism is the foundation of Christian life.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

16. Baptism plants the seeds of faith in our hearts.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
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17. In baptism we are made a new creation in Christ.

St. Paul the Apostle

18. Baptism welcomes us into a family of faith.

St. John XXIII, Pope

19. In baptism we are transported into God’s heart.

St. John Paul II

20. Bsptism is a moment where heaven pours out it’s grace.

St. Augustine

21. The Sacrament of Baptism, like Marriage, is both a beginning and an end. It’s the end of a former way of life; the beginning of a new life in God’s grace.

St. John Henry Newman

22. We who have been reborn through the sacrament of baptism experience intense joy when we feel within us the first stirrings of the Hily Spirit.

St. Hilary, Bishop

23. As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a divine life. That birth occurs in the sacrament of baptism.

Venerable Fulton Sheen

24. If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and you believe in God, you may become acquainted with the Christ of God, and after being initiated (by Baptism) live a happy life.

St. Justin Martyr

St. Justin Marty
by Theophanes the Cretan

25. Baptism cleanses the soul from the pollution of worldly thoughts and inclinations: You will wash me, says the psalmist, and I shall be whiter than snow.

St. Basil the Great

Eucharist, Faith, Quotes of the Saints, Sacrament

Twenty-Five Quotes about the Eucharist from the Saints

March 31, 2026 Vicki Scheenstra

The Sacrament of the Eucharist was instituted during Holy Week on Holy Thursday.

The Catholic Church has always believed in the Real Presence of the Jesus in the Eucharist.

As we contemplate the many things that happened during the last week of Jesus life, let’s take time to reflect on the quotes of the saints over the years on the meaning of the Eucharist.

1. There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

St. John Vianncy

2. When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelopes the soul as the flower envelopes the bee.

St. John Vianney

3. The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love, then the soul appreciates these words, ‘Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.

St. Bernedette Soubirouse

4. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.

St. John Paul II

5. It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

St. Padre Pio

6. Receive Communion often, very often…there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus did not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.

S. Therese of Lisieux

7. The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us.

St. John Damascene

8. The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white host.

St. Fulton Sheen

9. When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host, you understand how much Jesus loves you NOW.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

10. O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and Son of God, should humble Himself like this and hide under the form of a little bread for our salvation.

St. Francis Assisi

St. Francis of Assisi

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11. The saints all their lives long were like men rejoicing at a feast.

St. Athanatius

12. The Lord comes into us Sacramentally in order to live there Spiritually.

St. Peter Julian Eymard

13. If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.

St. Lydia

14. In the Blessed Sacrament a heavenly school is open to me, with the best teacher one can possibly imagine…Jesus Christ himself!

St. John XXIII

15. If angels could be jealous of me, they would be so for this reason; Holy Communion.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

16. The Eucharist is the food of eternal life.

St.Therese of Lisieux

17. We do not go to communion because we are good. We go to communion to become good.

St. John Bosco

18. The Eucharist is a never ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the Supreme love, the act of love.

St. Katherine Drexel

19. Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to communion as often as you can.

St. Dominic Savio

20. At Communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves inclined.

St. Philip Neri

21. I understand that each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later on the beatific vision of God.

St. Gertrude the Great