Quotes about Citizen
Do as Socrates did, never replying to the question of where he was from with, 'I am Athenian,' or 'I am from Corinth,' but always, 'I am a citizen of the world.'
- Marcus Aurelius
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
- Isaiah 12:6
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- Luke 15:15
But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”
- Acts 21:39
On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
- Acts 22:26
The commander went to Paul and asked, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” “Yes,” he answered.
- Acts 22:27
Then those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.
- Acts 22:29
This man was seized by the Jews, and they were about to kill him when I came with my troops to rescue him. For I had learned that he is a Roman citizen,
- Acts 23:27
Jesus was not crucified for being a good citizen, for being just a little nicer than everyone else. The powers of his day correctly saw him and his followers as subversives because they took orders from a higher power than Rome or Jerusalem. What would a subversive church look like in the modern United States?
- Philip Yancey
If you are a citizen of the kingdom of God through faith in Christ, you are automatically at war with the kingdom of Satan.
- Derek Prince
Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.
- James A. Garfield