Linda Ronstadt

I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.

American Musician

Peter Ackroyd

Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism.

British Author

Eva Longoria

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

American Actress

J. Michael Straczynski

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

American Producer

H. L. Mencken

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

American Writer

Paul Washer

I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

American Clergyman

Ira Gershwin

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

Rachel Khoo

I had a baptism of fire when I cooked in the Little Paris Kitchen.

British Chef

Billy Sunday

Used in Christian traditions to welcome someone into the faith.

Religious Context

Baptism practices can differ, with some using immersion and others sprinkling water.

Ceremony Variations

Symbolically, baptism represents cleansing and rebirth.

Sign of Purity

A 'baptism of fire' refers to a challenging first experience in a new situation.

Metaphorical Use

This idiom suggests a test of someone's abilities to endure hardship or stress.

Testing Strength

'Baptism of fire' rarely has a religious implication when used idiomatically.

Not Literal

 in December at Christmas, and his suffering, death, and resurrection during Holy Week in the spring. In the ceremony of baptism, a washing away of sin and welcoming into the Christian community, recall Jesus's own baptism when he left his life as a carpenter. In the rite of Communion,

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 Basically, we journalists should be on the opposite side from those in power. But if you're in bed with politicians, if you go to the baptism or wedding of the governor's son or if you want to be the president's buddy, how are you going to criticize them?

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 for the U.S. phone books, and it was my first experience of digital type, and quite a baptism. Designed for the phone books, as I said, to be printed at tiny size on newsprint on very high-speed rotary presses

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 and a baptism pool built into the wall behind them. A room like this, nonetheless. With the same great feelings of suspense, the same deep hopes for salvation, the same sweat in the palms

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 little Amelia may not know it but she played a role in the fateful circumstances that saved her family and relatives from serious injury and possibly much worse it was her baptism

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 Life is certainly not a playground around here. But through baptism by fire, this little cub has learned an invaluable lesson, and she's one step closer, to joining the ranks,

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 community baptism is so integral to religious practice in african-american communities in the 20s there was a very established since of strength and support for one another

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 out to harm the baby six tons of mounting passion is getting dangerously out of control this has been a baptism of fire for a newborn but at last the heat is off

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 to know your life was on the line in a judge's first ever case? And how do you think that judge would feel? The transition to the bench can be a baptism by fire.

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 That was my baptism by fire into what has now become a sad fact of life here in the United States and increasingly across Canada as well.