A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside…

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

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

— Philip Schaff

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 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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— John Nelson Darby

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

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

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

— A. B. Simpson

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and…

— Arthur Wallis