Philemon Quotes

#1. Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see
For his own friends desires to prescribe.

Philemon

#2. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Andy Kaufman

#3. Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

Philemon

#4. They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march. The heart of D'Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. Cute when you do that. My

R.K. Lilley

#6. Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Philemon

#7. Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Philemon

#8. Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Philemon

#9. I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

Philemon

#10. But more important here is the rhetorical point that they make: Philemon is to respond to Paul because he, Paul, and Onesimus are all "in the Lord/Christ."1365 The fellowship that is created among those who have faith in Christ (v. 6) brings with it obligations to one another.

Douglas J. Moo

#11. A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

Philemon

#12. I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Edna Ferber

#13. A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

Philemon

#14. I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Philemon

#15. Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God - this God who has failed to treat them by what they see as their proper right.

Norman Mailer

#16. In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

Philemon

#17. A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

Philemon

#18. It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

Philemon

#19. We are all crazy when we are angry.

Philemon

#20. Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Philemon