Quotes about Infant
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.
— Lewis Sperry Chafer
Simeon took Him in his arms and blessed God, saying:
— Luke 2:28
By contrast, infinite players have no interest in seduction or in restricting the freedom of another to one's own boundaries of play. Infinite players recognize choice in all aspects of sexuality. They may see in themselves and in others, for example, the infant's desire to compete for the mother, but they also see that there is neither physiological nor societal destiny in sexual patterns. Who chooses to compete with another can also choose to play with another.
— James Carse
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
— Numbers 12:12
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the Baby, who was lying in the manger.
— Luke 2:16
We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.
— John Wycliffe
In infant baptism it was confessed that conversion and regeneration differ, and conversion is ordinarily a coming to consciousness of that new life which has long before been planted in the heart.
— Herman Bavinck
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
— JC Ryle
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
— Exodus 2:6
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
— 1 Kings 3:18
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.
— Adoniram Judson
Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
— Leviticus 27:6