Sample Sentences for

apostle

grouped by contextual meaning

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Be, if thy spirit summon thee to such a mission, the teacher and apostle of the red men.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer, a female apostle?  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.†  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

I mean real love, the kind my grandmother used to describe by quoting the apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, the love that is kind and patient, that does not envy or boast, that beareth all things and believeth all things and endureth all things.†  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

To quote the apostle Paul: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28).†  (source) Ben Carson, Gifted Hands, 1990

[But] even this threat to peace can be overcome through the assurance that comes from faith—and through love, which the apostle John says casts out fear†  (source) Misty Bernall, She Said Yes, 1999

Many hundreds of years later, St. Paul the Apostle stood here and preached about Jesus and Christianity to the Athenians.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it "Innocence: A Question" because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year that Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at three A.M. h†  (source) Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999

Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

This is Big Sam our foreman, and Elijah and Apostle and Prophet from Tara.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

There is Simon Peter the Apostle, of course, who was made a fisher of men by our Lord.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

Jaime practiced his profession with the vocation of a true apostle.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

As the Apostle Paul wrote: 'Why all these tears?†  (source) Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962

There were Cains and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters; Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea in butter-boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole.  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles — their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

They're the apostles.  (source) David Almond, Clay, 2005

The Acts of the Apostles, chapter sixteen, is it?†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not disdain the canonship.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

We hear of this in the Acts of the Apostles.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Even the legendary craft of the company, a craft subtler and more secret than its fabled books of secret subtle wisdom, had not fired his soul with the energy of apostleship.†  (source) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917

Apostles and Apostates†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Strange that his first aspiration—towards academical proficiency—had been checked by a woman, and that his second aspiration—towards apostleship—had also been checked by a woman.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1895

We have to know by heart all the prayers, the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Confiteor, the Apostles' Creed, the Act of Contrition, the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

the wind, that is there said to fill the house wherein the Apostles were assembled on the day of Pentecost, is not to be understood for the Holy Spirit, which is the Deity it self; but for an Externall sign of Gods speciall working on their hearts, to effect in them the internall graces, and holy vertues hee thought requisite for the performance of their Apostleship.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

After the crucifixion, the apostles went to his tomb hoping to find his body and instead found nothing.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

This Testimony, was the specificall, and essentiall mark; whereby the Apostleship was distinguished from other Magistracy Ecclesiasticall; as being necessary for an Apostle, either to have seen our Saviour after his Resurrection, or to have conversed with him before, and seen his works, and other arguments of his Divinity, whereby they might be taken for sufficient Witnesses.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651