apostle

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But I was no apostle, — I could not behold the herald, — I could not receive his call.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

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

The funeral will be held in Toronto at the Church of St. Simon the Apostle on Wednesday.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

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

[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

They were the words spoken by Jesus when he chose Peter as his first apostle.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

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

He stood as still and meditative as a Greek Orthodox apostle.†  (source) Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life, 2002

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

Then, of course, there was John the apostle, who described heaven in great detail in the book of Revelation.†  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

After all, the apostle Paul wanted women to keep silent in church, and the early Christian leader Tertullian denounced women as "the gateway of the devil.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The symbol was known as a crux gemmata—a cross bearing thirteen gems—a Christian ideogram for Christ and His twelve apostles.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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

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

Then, with sage doctrine and good will to help, Forth on his great apostleship he far'd, Like torrent bursting from a lofty vein; And, dashing 'gainst the stocks of heresy, Smote fiercest, where resistance was most stout.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

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

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

Pictures of Christ, the Apostles, Mary, the Crucifixion.†  (source) Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship;†  (source) The Bible, New Testament, 1611