Quotes about Colony

The point about Philippi being a colony of Rome was not that the citizens would go back to Rome one day, but that (so it was hoped) they would bring the benefits of Roman civilization to Philippi.

From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.

That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.