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.
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.
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.
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6. The soul is regenerated in the Sacred waters of baptism and this becomes God’s child.
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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.
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.
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9. Let your baptism be your armor; your faith , your helmet; your love, your spear; your patient endurance, your analogy (spiritual armor).
10. Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
11. I received the Sacrament of Baptism with such joy that only angels could describe!
12. Baptism is a beautiful mystery, revealing God’s love for us.
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13. Through baptism we are introduced to the life of grace.
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14. Baptism signifies both a new birth and a new beginning.
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15. Baptism is the foundation of Christian life.
16. Baptism plants the seeds of faith in our hearts.
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17. In baptism we are made a new creation in Christ.
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18. Baptism welcomes us into a family of faith.
19. In baptism we are transported into God’s heart.
20. Bsptism is a moment where heaven pours out it’s grace.
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.
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.
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.
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.
