#baptism

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#called #deep #initiation #into #may

I was raised as a Baptist in the Bible Belt of the South. Until the age of 37, I had never heard anyone teach or preach about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Oh yes, I had heard those scriptures read, more aptly read over, and had read over them myself, but I had never heard anyone try to explain this amazing experience or even give it any credence. ↗

— Kimberly Eady

#ghost #holy #spirt #spirtitual-growth #age

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#baptism #caused #i #i am #misfortune

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#birth #catholicism #christianity #faith #god

For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed. ↗

— John Tillotson

#communion #eucharist #god #lord-s-supper #sacraments

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#coast #fascism #wants