Quotes for Baptism, Confirmation & Blessing

Christian quotes for Baptism, Confirmation & Blessing — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

When you see a child, you catch God in the act.

Martin Luther

We may come to him as we are. We will not stay with him as we are.

Paul Deitenbeck

Identity. It's always God's first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God's own.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Go under grace, go with God's blessing, go in his peace, whatever you do. Go under grace, listen to God's word, stay near him, whether you wake or rest.

Manfred Siebald

To bless means to lay a hand on something and say: You belong to God, no matter what.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we ask how we can begin a life with God, the Bible answers that God has long since begun a life with us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With Jesus, we belong. Before we have done anything right, before we get our lives cleaned up... we are his and he is ours.

Judah Smith

Christ has no body now but yours, no hands but yours. Your eyes are those through which Christ's compassion looks upon the world. With your feet he goes about doing good. With your hands he will now bless us.

Teresa of Ávila

The great spiritual call of the Beloved Children of God is to pull their brokenness away from the shadow of the curse and put it under the light of the blessing.

Henri Nouwen

If you are wounded, and I know that you and I are, put your brokenness under the blessing.

Henri Nouwen

Our children are our most important guests, who enter into our home, ask for careful attention, stay for a while and then leave to follow their own way. Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.

Henri Nouwen

To be adopted means that now God loves us as if we had done all Jesus had done.

Tim Keller

I wish you the spirit of freedom, which does everything out of love and nothing out of compulsion.

Francis de Sales

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it—which is what matters most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

At the beginning of being a Christian there is not an ethical decision or a great idea, but the encounter with an event, with a person.

Pope Benedict XVI

Our being Christians today will consist of only two things: prayer and doing justice among people. All thinking, speaking and organizing in the things of Christianity must be born anew out of this prayer and this action.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[God] will never cease to help us until we cease to need.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.

Hodding Carter

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Richard Rohr

Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.

Steven Furtick

If we are to raise children, we must also become children with them.

Martin Luther

You begin to be when you give yourself away. You find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

Peter Kreeft

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step; being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life.

Billy Graham

Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.

Henri Nouwen

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Thomas Merton

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles Swindoll

Blessing wants to be passed on, it passes over to other people. Whoever is blessed is themselves a blessing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Christian life is nothing other than a daily baptism; begun once and continued walking in it.

Martin Luther

You are God's love at first sight. He remains faithful to you. What holds you back? You are God's wished-for child. It's good that you exist. Wonderful how the Lord loves you above all.

Theo Lehmann

As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim. Have a high standard. Make Jesus your ideal…make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

Eric Liddell

Three things have remained to us from paradise: stars, flowers, and children.

Dante Alighieri

The first happiness of a child is the consciousness of being loved.

John Bosco

When God sends you on the way, he also gives you the right shoes.

Michel de Montaigne

To give a blessing is to affirm, to say yes to a person's Belovedness.

Henri Nouwen

There is no model conversion. There is no prescribed ritual, whether emotional or liturgical. We are all different. God is the same and has the same salvation to work in us, but he creates an original story every time.

Eugene Peterson

I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, ‘You’re nobody!’ they’re calling you ‘God’s living children.

Eugene Peterson

People quoted here

Martin Luther, Paul Deitenbeck, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Manfred Siebald, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Judah Smith, Teresa of Ávila, Henri Nouwen, Tim Keller, Francis de Sales, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pope Benedict XVI

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