#first

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. ↗

— John Strachan

#christian #church #converted #day #ever

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#defensive #expect #first #i #i do

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#away #dead #felt #first #forced

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#financially #first #foremost #get #help

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#even #first #frighten #her #praising

The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place. ↗

— John Sununu

#america #bonds #borrowing #commitment #done

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

#draft #finally #finished #first #friend

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#case #first #foreign #intellectuals #invasion

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#between #difference #first #generation #get