Quotes about Procession

Connecting the dots of Paul's journeys, actual and planned, is like mapping a royal procession through Caesar's heartlands.

Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.

and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.

They have seen Your procession, O God—the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.

Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.

The language describes the royal entourage who will ascend to welcome the King of Glory in the air (air does not mean heaven), in order to usher him back to earth in royal celebration. In other words, the language signals a common image: when the watchmen of a walled city heard the trumpet sound, signaling the proximity of their royal king, they would send out an entourage and create a royal procession as the victorious king returned.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

He also sent messengers to Pope Leo III., with the request to sanction the insertion of the clause in the Nicene Creed. The pope decided in favor of the doctrine of the double procession, but protested against the alteration of the creed, and caused the Nicene Creed, in its original Greek text and the Latin version, to be engraved on two tablets and suspended in the Basilica of St. Peter, as a perpetual testimony against the innovation.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.