Quotes About Epistles

#1. Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Margaret Fuller

#2. The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.

Richard Dawkins

#3. To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Philip Schaff

#4. Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy ... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.

Charles W. Freeman Jr.

#5. The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

C.S. Lewis

#6. The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a bad day at work. But they are practically overflowing with this one word: hope.

Ted Dekker

#7. our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. Christians are to be living epistles, written by God and read by men (2 Cor. 3:2).

Greg Laurie

#8. Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.

Robert M. Price

#9. It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!

Abraham Verghese

#10. Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

William Tyndale

#11. Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.
How diligently they read them!
Here they find their law and profits,
their judges and chronicles,
their epistles and revelations.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

Alistair Begg

#14. The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Joseph Butler

#15. [...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]

Charles Stross

#16. True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

Ernest Renan

#17. === God's deposit is great inside u, the prophet only calls it out

Ikechukwu Joseph

#18. In the search for an author [of Hebrews] we are virtually stumbling over Priscilla. No longer is it feasible to pretend she isn't there.

Ruth Hoppin

#19. Can't help the way I was raised - anything supernatural is supposed to be either a miracle or satanic."
I rolled my eyes. "And you're still trying to figure out which I am?"
"Non. I'm trying to figure out if I'm still Catholic." He grinned that heart-stopping grin.

Kresley Cole

#20. I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that

Victor Klemperer

#22. Bees chase flowers.

Tracy L. Shreve

#23. I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees.

Lauren Slater

#24. I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

Lucinda Williams

#25. It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.

Christopher Bond

#26. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

E.W. Howe