Baptising Quotes & Sayings

We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way. — Chris Matakas

I like a man who can run faster than I can. — Jane Russell

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. — Pierre Charron

. . . the authors had developed indices that could be employed to measure the state of a civilization, to determine if society was healthy, in decline, or perhaps even dead. The indicators keyed in on everything from the accumulation of refuse to declines in everyday civility. They looked at how a society treated its most vulnerable citizens; examined a culture's architecture, gauging its scale in relation to humans and the surrounding natural world. One of the primary indicators, however, was a measure of the ability of a society's citizens to listen to each other and truly hear what was being said. It evaluated by gradations the ability of individuals to stand motionless for prolonged periods, receptive to their surroundings. — Robert H. Lieberman

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which ... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world. — John Constable

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat. — Pamela Anderson

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love. — Rumi

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. — Imran Khan

So finally I asked my father in the most offhand way imaginable what exactly would happen to a cat if one were to say to, say, baptize it. He replied that the Sacraments must always be treated and regarded with the greatest respect. That wasn't really an answer to my question, We did respect the Sacraments, but we thought the whole world of those cats. I got his meaning, though and I did no more baptising until I was ordained. — Marilynne Robinson