Quotes about Epistles

In the Gospels the emphasis is on the death of Christ. In the Epistles the emphasis is upon the resurrection of Christ. In the Book of Revelation the emphasis is upon the ascension of Christ. Protestantism, and even fundamentalism, has ignored the ascension of Christ, and this is one reason we have not had a great enough emphasis upon the present ministry of Christ.

In the Gospels—Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles—Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation—Jesus is the King over his people.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight, and it was long before he liked his Epistles and Satires. He told me what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek; not the Grecian historians, but Homer and Euripides, and now and then a little Epigram; that the study of which he was the most fond was Metaphysicks, but he had not read much, even in that way.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.