(14 quotes found)
“With soap, baptism is a good thing”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.”
Greg Lemond
“And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.”
Bible
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.”
Samuel Butler
“In China we use the word baptism a lot, it's a very revolutionary word.”
Joan Chen
“When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.”
Richard Olton
“He got a good baptism with Andrew. He's going to step into a real hot box now.”
Dominick Barbera
“And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.”
“This year we have several baptisms to perform at the Vigil on Saturday. There is a very large Portuguese and Spanish community in Milford so on Sunday we offer Masses in English and Spanish. Our 10:30 Masses will probably be attended by 1,300 people.”
Michael Foley