Apostolic Quote by Charles Hodge Download Open image “That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.” — Charles Hodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apostolic Facts Historical History Office Temporary
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“many lay people fear that they may be asked to undertake some apostolic work and they seek to avoid any responsibility that may take… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A New Testament apostolic function fully deployed within the Church today would significantly impact the dominion of darkness.” — David Cannistraci Copy Share Image
We're not a Church of preservation but rather a Church of proclamation. To achieve this end, we must be open to significant, if not… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν τὴν ἐνεργουμένην ἐν ἡμῖν, according to the power that worketh in us. The infinite power of God from which so much… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only. — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
