Who Is My Brother? Quotes

“For that very reason we must be careful not to transform clemency into a more generalized rule of justification. That is why (among other reasons) "the thief on the cross" is such a bogus argument for faith-only salvation. Not only was water baptism physically impossible at that moment, but what we were witnessing in that incident was clemency, not justification.”
― F. LaGard Smith, Who Is My Brother?

“If God wants there to be unbaptized believers in heaven, that is up to him. All we know and all we can preach is what we read in the Book. And from what we can read in the Book, there is no such thing as salvation, redemption, or justification apart from penitent, faith-prompted immersion.”
― F. LaGard Smith, Who Is My Brother?

“From top to bottom in congregation after congregation, Sunday fare is milk, not meat. Make that skim milk.”
― F. LaGard Smith, Who Is My Brother?

“Water, water everywhere, and all the faith-only arguments did shrink.”
― F. LaGard Smith, Who Is My Brother?