#apostle

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #churches #civilized #civilized world #death

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#apostle #book #hardly #into #likely

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#god #man #men #nor #sufficiency

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#children #day #forth #god #hope

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. ↗

— Og Mandino

#acts #anything #apostles #deal #good

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#add #apostle #argument #contradiction #contrary

The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#enters #every #god #higher #his

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believers #bible #debate #demanding #earliest

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

#being #concealed #knew #made #manifest