Quotes About Romans

You know the word 'barbarian' came from the Romans? It meant 'redheaded.' They was talking about you people. I saw that on the—what do you call it?—the History Channel, last night.

The Scriptures are called God's utterances or God's oracles (Rom 3:2).

When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God's grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.

Romans 7:21, and it distinguishes believers from unbelievers who lie serenely content in their darkness.

As we do so, it will be helpful to keep in mind that the biblical writers never seemed to be aware of the problem, except for one statement by Paul in Romans 9:19-21. And Paul's statement seems to raise

continued to work in His people, other nations, and the supernatural realm. He led Israel through a time of testing that developed a sense of hope and a yearning for the promised Messiah. He brought the four nations prophesied in Daniel's vision to international prominence: the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. These powerful kingdoms spread their cultures throughout civilization and united the world by means

The Romans didn't base their laws on a morality derived from a Judeo-Christian ethic. Roman laws had more to do with what was beneficial for Rome and Romans.

The Romans have had their problems," Uncle said. "Men are fallible, and some men are corrupt.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Africa. The Romans may have named this continent Apricus, meaning "sunny," which became the English Africa. But Africa, according to my correspondent Professor Howard Marblestone, "probably derives from the Afri, a name centered in the Carthagonian realm...

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. – Romans 4:20–21 NIV

For to make holes in the earth was to rape it! The Romans had scruples about violating or disfiguring the landscape: their religio had aspects that today we would call 'ecological'. That did not prevent their undertaking large-scale works, but always with the approval of the gods.

Change was Fate' the Romans said. well, Andreas loathed Fate, That Bitch.

The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation.

it should now be generally agreed that any concept of hilasterion in the sense of placating, appeasing, deflecting the anger of, or satisfying the wrath of, is inadmissible. The more important, and truly radical, reason for firmly rejecting this understanding of propitiation is that it envisions God as the object, whereas in the Scriptures, God is the acting subject.99 This is especially noticeable in Romans 3

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

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

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

The Romans knew only war that was 'just and in keeping with piety' (bellum justum piumque), made legitimate by the preliminary steps taken by the fetiales. If not, it would be a sacrilege, nefas. Civil war was a bellum nefandum, as was any offensive in foreign territory without a declaration of intent (indictio belli) and statutory complaint, as in a lawsuit. A war could not be engaged in without the gods' approval:

Two and a half centuries later, Scipio Aemilianus brought Tanit from Carthage, and the Romans revered her under the title Caelestis:

This double phenomenon - the influence of occult sciences and devotion to a particular deity - affected many Romans during the imperial era.

He associated Elagabal with two goddesses: Pallas-Allat and the 'Caelestis' of Carthage, whom the Romans identified with Juno but who was not unrelated to Venus-Astarte.

And for their part, the Abruzzese had a popular saying: "It is better to have a dead man in your house than a Marchegiani at your door," because the men of Marche had been used as tax collectors by the Romans, and so were universally hated.

The Egyptians had Hebrew slaves as well as others. The Romans had Greek slaves as well as slaves from England and Gaul.