Best Apostolic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If miracles are to be common, everyday occurances, normal and not extraordinary, they cease to attract attention, and lose their very reason of existence. What is normal is according to law. If miracles are the law of the Christian life they cease to serve their chief end. The contention of the faith-healers overlooks numerous important Biblical facts. Primarily the fact that the miraculous gifts in the New Testament were the credentials of the apostles, and were confirmed to those to whom the apostles had conveyed them--whence a presumption arises against their continuance after the apostolic age. ... Paul did not share the views of our modern faith-healers.”

Miracles Modernism Apostolic Supernaturalism Nar New Apostolic Reformation Faith Healers

Book:Counterfeit miracles

Source: Counterfeit miracles

“A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She is more important! The Church is feminine. She is Church, she is bride, she is mother.”

Important Would Be Mother Christ Church College Feminine Mary Spouse Apostles Apostolic

Author:Pope Francis

“Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.”

Way Needs Feelings Form Emotional Couple Mere Satisfaction Contribution Momentary Apostolic

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.”

Found Jesus Church Holy Catholic Fidelity Apostolic

Author:Pope John XXIII

“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”

Policy Changed Temporary Creeds Pursued Zeal Liable Apostolic Ghana

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.”

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Author:Lowell L. Bennion

“The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XIV

“Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.”

Men Earth Prayer Kingdoms Preaching Indispensable Kingdom Of God Apostolic Man Of God

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.”

Soul Desire Father Christ Prayer Activity Direct Oneness Permit His Love Apostolic

Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.”

Firsts Energy Lost Disciple Apostolic Lost Faith

Author:Horace Bushnell

“They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.”

Games Atheism Tradition Positive Atheism Scripture Objectives Irrelevant Infallible Unbroken Apostolic Truth Of God Objective Truth

Book:Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

“The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.”

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Author:Alexander MacLaren

“Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.”

“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.”

“The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.”

Way Results Accomplish Apostolic

Book:GOD'S WAY OF HOLINESS

Source: GOD'S WAY OF HOLINESS

“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 of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It's the quality of those who are on fire for Jesus, who dream of the whole earth being covered with the Glory of the Lord.”

Mean Persons Whole Dream Earth Suffering Choices Passion Jesus Nations Quality Lord Fire Willing Worship Glory Committed Covered Deliberate Apostolic

Author:Floyd McClung

“Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.”

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Author:Charles Bradlaugh

“In an apostolic network the person in charge of maintaining the DNA of the network is the lead apostle, who consults with those he or she chooses, and no one else.”

Persons Dna Maintaining Apostles Apostolic

Author:C. Wagner

“The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit that is changing the shape of Christianity globally. It is truly a new day! The Church is changing. New names! New methods! New worship expressions! The Lord is establishing the foundations of the Church for the new millennium. This foundation is built upon apostles and prophets. Apostles execute and establish God's plan on the earth.”

“The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of a harvest and a genuine apostolic reformation in a new way.”

World Way Spirit Stage Genuine New Ways Harvest Fullness New Day Reformation Apostolic Testifying

Author:Mark Chironna

“We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.”

“The war between the Pastor and the Prophet will cease with the full emergence of the Apostle.... Are we going to be willing to submit our ministry to a specific Apostolic visionary? This is a critical question that will determine our influence on hastening the coming of the Lord, in our effective contribution to the restoring of all things spoken by the prophets.”

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Author:John Eckhardt

“The whole world will be affected when the apostles and prophets are fully restored. Their supernatural prophetic and apostolic words will signal the rise and fall of many nations and people. They will be instrumental in determining goat and sheep nations so that when Jesus Christ comes He can put the sheep nations on His right and the goat nations on His left. It will not be long until Christians realize the tremendous ways the restoration of prophets and apostles will affect them and the corporate Church.”

Source: Apostles, Prophets and the Coming Moves of God: God's End-Time Plans for His Church and Planet Earth

“We are in the times of the beginning of a new epoch for Christianity. True apostolic Christianity is being restored to the earth.”

Earth Christianity Epoch Apostolic

Author:Rick Joyner

“When I was commissioned with the purpose of helping to restore prophetic ministry to the Church for its last-day ministry, I was told that it would not be until the prophets and teachers learned to worship the Lord together as they did at Antioch that He would release true apostolic ministry in the Church again.”

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Author:Rick Joyner

“Let's ask the Lord to give us a Jubilee strategy for this nation! Below, I have an article related to the Freedom Fighters and Triumphant Reserve that the Spirit of the Lord is rising up in days ahead. That is why we need Apostolic Hubs (Freedom Outposts).”

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Author:Chuck Pierce

“In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer of vice, Liberator of souls, Guide to true happiness, she is called Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman.”

Soul Facts Mother Christ Lord Virtue Holy Catholic Salvation Vices Guides Nurse Our Lord True Happiness Destroyers Apostolic Liberators

Author:Pope Pius IX

“In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.”

Lasts Father Speak Situation Holy Members Handle Tendencies Pope Homosexual Apostolic

Author:Christoph Schonborn

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

Writing Kind Three Historical Prophetic Apostolic Didactic

Book:Church History

Source: Church History

“We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.”

Ifs Long Country Home Wonder Fashion Miracle Died Seeking Stranger Settling Pilgrim Settling Down Apostolic

Author:Amy Carmichael

“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas My Own Sin Virtue Sadness Humility Optimism Active Pity Shock Repentance Rejoice Amendments Concrete Assistance Cheerful Apostolic Restitution Disobeying

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith.”

Ifs Spiritual Joy Choices Jesus Social Christ Communicate Spread Engagement Within You Apostolic

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result of the community's constant prayer (cf. "Evangelii Nuntiandi," 75). Moreover, for the mission to be effective, communities must be united, that is, they must be "of one heart and soul" (cf. Acts 4:32), and they must be ready to witness to the love and joy that the Holy Spirit instils in the hearts of the faithful (cf. Acts 4:32).”

“The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe, with the late Pope John Paul II, that God is preparing a new springtime for Christianity (cf. Redemptoris Missio, 86). What is needed above all, at this time in the history of the Church in America, is a renewal of that apostolic zeal which inspires her shepherds actively to seek out the lost, to bind up those who have been wounded, and to bring strength to those who are languishing (cf. Ez 34:16).”

Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States

“While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.”

Faces Christ Challenges Conscious Flames Preaching Founders Zeal Footsteps Apostolic

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.”

Heart Christianity Charity Tongue Missionary Apostolic Claret

Author:Anthony Mary Claret

“What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.”

May Children Has Beens Able Church Authority Universal Celebration Sacraments Council Baptism Consecration Apostolic Church Fathers

Author:Saint Augustine

“The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.”

Way Mother Church Tradition Customs Infant Baptism Superfluous Scorned Apostolic Church Fathers

Author:Saint Augustine

“The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!”

Church Rocks Holy Built Peter Sacraments Dwelling Lambs Apostolic

Author:Pope Pius IX

“By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.”

Believe Heart Church Holy Mouths Catholic Salvation Saved Heretic Roman Catholic Apostolic Apostolic Church

Author:Pope Innocent III

“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”

“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 observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.”

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Author:St. Jerome

“That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.”

States Reason Serious Holy Innovation Catholicism Rite Liturgy Apostolic

Author:Pope Gregory XVI

“We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and unbridled desire of novelty, truth is not sought where it truly resides, and, with a disregard for the holy and apostolic traditions, other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, not approved by the Church are accepted as true, on which very vain men mistakenly think that truth itself is supported and sustained.”

Thinking Men Long Philosophy Desire Church Holy Truth Is Tradition Accepted Doctrine Vain Catholicism Long Ago Uncertain Novelty Disregard Approved Disapproval Apostolic

Author:Pope Gregory XVI

“For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.”

Doe Made Nations Clear Position Diversity Concern Tradition Sacred Preserves Grants Customs Catholicism Rite Liturgy Apostolic Customs And Traditions

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.”

Long Taught Authority Neglect Catholicism Prudence Antiquity Approved Apostolic

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God...let him be anathema.”

Ifs Mind Doe Has Beens Lasts Father Church Holy Down And Catholic Catholicism Portions Apostolic Anathema Apostolic Church

Author:Pope Martin I

“God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.”

Mercy Forgiving Seeking Tire Apostolic Personal Relationship With God

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

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