Antioch Quotes

• Primero sacarás el santo alfiler. Luego contarás hasta tres, ni más ni menos. Tres será el número que contarás, y el número de la cuenta será tres. Cuatro no contarás, ni contarás dos, excepto que entonces procedas a tres. El cinco queda fuera. Una vez alcanzado el número tres, que es el tercer número, entonces lanzarás tu Santa Granada de Mano de Antioquía hacia tu enemigo, quien, siendo malo a mis ojos, la apagará.

  Michael Palin

  Travieso, Vista, Manos

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• Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

  Chris Tomlin

  Christian, Simple, Names

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 02, 2016

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• Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Wall, Ethnicity

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Cities, Homeless, Broke

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “To Have Taken The Trouble”

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• Si Juliano se había lisonjeado de que su relación personal con la capital de Oriente produciría una satisfacción mutua para el príncipe y el pueblo, se equivocó mucho al estimar su propio carácter y las costumbres de Antioquía. El calor del clima predisponía a los nativos al disfrute más destemplado de la tranquilidad y la opulencia; y el vivo libertinaje de los griegos se mezclaba con la suavidad hereditaria de los sirios.

  Edward Gibbon

  Carácter, Gente, Historia

  Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857). "El Gibbon del estudiante: Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio Romano", p.174

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• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

  Robert Breault

  Block, Character, Venus De Milo

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• The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Artist, Games

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.510, Wordsworth Editions

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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• 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.

  Rick Joyner

  Teacher, Church, Together

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• Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Art, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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