Lord, clear the church of all the rot and rubbish the…

“There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us,…

— Os Guinness

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

— A. B. Simpson

For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship…

— Floyd McClung

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are…

— St. Jerome

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

— John Nelson Darby

Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification,…

— Pope Innocent I

To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on…

— R. C. Sproul

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.…

— Elaine Pagels

What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in…

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

“If we were less of what seems like ease in our lives they would tell more for Christ and souls...We profess to be strangers…

— Amy Carmichael

If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that…

— Pope Martin I

The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be…

— St. Jerome

Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

— Philip Schaff

I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their…

— Pope Francis