Saint Augustine Quotes about Baptism

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Saint Augustine

Baptism, New Life, Repent

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Humility, Baptism

"Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

Saint Augustine

Mother, Baptism, Church

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Saint Augustine

Baptized In, Baptism, Fonts

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

Saint Augustine

Baptism, Church, Wickedness

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

Saint Augustine

Angel, Baptism, Faithful

Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4249, Aeterna Press

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

Saint Augustine

Children, Order, Baptism

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

Saint Augustine

Children, Baptism, Church

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

Saint Augustine

Son, Catholic, Baptism

Saint Augustine Quotes about Baptism

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