Quotes of: Apostles Keyword

Devils have more than twelve apostles.

Swedish

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.

Lewis B. Smedes

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of the people who make up the Church, they are i...

The Apostles: The Origin of the Church and Their Co-Workers

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the...

Martin Chemnitz

Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. The Letter to Philemon

Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free

It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.

Ferdinand Christian Baur

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

Origen

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the...

Jan Hus

His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries to...

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

His ally was the age-old, unending human search for truth and security. In the first century as the twenty first, some were devout, some superstitious, others were frankly materialistic, even though in that age they paid lip service to the gods. Othe...

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

In youth his mind had been closed, for every prejudice of upbringing was a disinfectant against pagan ideas. He now had an even more satisfying answer to the puzzles of human strivings and destiny. Paganism at its philosophical best would appear a gl...

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

David A. Bednar