Quotes about Early

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God. It would be truly remarkable if one great truth of early Christian faith and life were actually to displace another, to displace it indeed so thoroughly that people forgot it even existed. But that's what I think has happened.

It took a while, but the early followers of Jesus began to put the pieces together. Resurrection is a future thing, part of the "world to come." Raising Jesus now meant that the "world to come" was already here—at least a preview of it.

And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took the ark of the LORD.

So Joshua arose early the next morning and had Israel come forward tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”

Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your master’s servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light.”