Quotes about Apostle
For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
— 1 Timothy 2:7
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
— 2 Timothy 1:1
to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
— 2 Timothy 1:11
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
— Titus 1:1
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
— Hebrews 3:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
— 1 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
— 2 Peter 1:1
I leave from where the apostle arrived.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The historian James Anthony Froude wrote: "The worth of a man must be measured by his life, not by his failure under a singular and peculiar trial. Peter the apostle, though forewarned, three times denied his Master on the first alarm of danger; yet that Master, who knew his nature in its strength and in its weakness, chose him.
— J. Oswald Sanders
I said, Because I did not find it commanded in the Word of God. Keel. He said, We were commanded to pray. Bun. I said, But not by the Common Prayer-Book. Keel. He said, How then? Bun. I said, With the Spirit. As the apostle saith, I will pray with the Spirit, and with the understanding. 1 Cor. xiv. 15.
— John Bunyan
In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.
— Pope Francis
It is, moreover, evident from hence that it is a greater matter to be truly and really holy than most persons are aware of. We may learn eminently how great and excellent a work this of sanctification and holiness is from the causes of it. How emphatically doth our apostle ascribe it unto God, even the Father: 1 Thess. v. 23, "Even the God of peace himself sanctify you." It is so great a work as that it cannot be wrought by any but the God of peace himself.
— John Owen