Quotes about Roman
Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.
— George Weigel
So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
— Acts 16:38
To ACCUMB (ACCU'MB) v.a.[accumbo, Lat.] To lie at the table, according to the ancient manner.Dict. ACCUMBENT (ACCU'MBENT) adj.[accumbens, Lat.]Leaning. The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war.Arbuthnoton Coins.
— Samuel Johnson
The general claim of the oracle is that a new regime of peace and well-being will displace the older (Roman) order of violence and extortion.
— Walter Brueggemann
When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.
— Norman Geisler
From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
— Acts 16:12
On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
— Acts 22:26
The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
achieved by the Roman
— Tony Campolo
I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.
— Acts 25:16
God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.
— Matt Chandler
Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.
— Acts 22:29