Top 286 Romans 8 Quotes & Sayings

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.

Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?!

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.

I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds, or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question: "Shall we sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1) And: "Shall we do evil that good may come?" (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It is presumption to step into God's place and try to make the assignments to heaven or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form? Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up.

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.

[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

The Romans were the tonal incarnate, complete order.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)

San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root.

Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.

We were all Romans once, I guess.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.

The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).