Explore popular quotes and sayings by a saint Philemon.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Philemon was an early Christian in Asia Minor who was the recipient of a private letter from Paul of Tarsus. This letter is known as Epistle to Philemon in the New Testament. He is known as a saint by several Christian churches along with his wife Apphia. Philemon was a wealthy Christian and a minister of the house church that met in his home.
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.
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.
Not one amongst the doctors, as you'll see
For his own friends desires to prescribe.
We are all crazy when we are angry.
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.
Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.
A farmer is always going to be rich next year.
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.
A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.
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.