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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• I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

  Dorothy Day

  Reading, Men, Order

  "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Feet, Ready

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• I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!

  John Newton

  Evil, Imperfection, Grace

  The Christian Spectator, Volume 3 (p. 186), 1821; later quoted in "The Christian Pioneer" edited by Joseph Foulkes Winks (p. 84), 1856.

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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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• 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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• There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the mountain and called his twelve apostles around him. In the afternoon he went out on the plain with them to preach the Good News and heal the sick. He had communion with God first, then he had community, and then he went out to do the work of God. That's the order of things.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Morning, Night

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, God, Christian

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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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• 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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• 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

  Heirs, Debate, Resurrection

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• But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
  He taught and first he followed it himself.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Twelve, Firsts, Taught

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.34, Barron's Educational Series

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• Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Wisdom, Children, Names

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• The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Church, Gold, Silver

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Children

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• Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Home, Water

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