Apostles Quotes

• He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

  Saint Patrick

  Believe, Doe, Saved

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• The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

  Jim Cymbala

  Praying, Trouble, Instinct

  Twitter post from May 06, 2014

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• There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Challenges, Needs, Generations

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• Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  God, Miracle

  Smith Wigglesworth (1998). “Smith Wigglesworth on Faith”, p.19, Whitaker House

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• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ch. 2, 1963.

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• If God is for us, who can be against us?

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Church, Twelve, May

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• Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles. Are we ready to serve others like this.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Feet, Ready

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• My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

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• Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Rome, Community

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• If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same way, through the Apostles ordaining their successors, and these successors ordaining others, and so on, the grace of the Holy Spirit is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their spiritual shepherds and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Teacher

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

  Roland Allen

  Spiritual, Men, Illumination

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• The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that they had actually seen, talked with and eaten with the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ had not really risen and had not appeared to the apostles, would they all have died for a lie?

  Fritz Ridenour

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

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

  David A. Bednar

  Men, Common, Ancient

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• The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Gold, Glory

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• It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Bible, Christian

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.19, Penguin

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• Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Memories, Blessed

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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Heaven, Church

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• 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 Scriptures.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Writing, Church, Doctrine

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.

  John Wycliffe

  Silence, Spirit, Christ

  "Typical English Churchmen". Book by John Neville Figgis, p. 16, 1909.

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• Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Father, Doe

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• Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Suffering, Christ

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• An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Reality, Missionary

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• The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'. They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Granted, Salvation

  "Conferences".

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