Early Church Quotes

21 Early Church quotes by 20 unique authors

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be… — Tony Campolo
We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went,… — Martin Luther
As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told, the Scriptures tell… — Wayne Jacobsen
Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they draw incorrect conclusions… — Quentin L. Cook
These were specific enablements given to certain believers for the purpose of authenticating or confirming God's Word when it was proclaimed in the early church… — John F. MacArthur
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the… — Charles Spurgeon
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I… — John Nelson Darby
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the… — Pope Francis
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church… — D. Elton Trueblood
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New. — Randall Terry
The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a… — Gary North
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’! — Carl F. H. Henry
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous… — Timothy Keller
There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would… — Neil MacGregor
Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. — John Ortberg
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early… — John Nelson Darby
In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah. — Jack Schwartz

Who Wrote These Early Church Quotes

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