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Quotes About Pauline

But by the end of the first century there is evidence to suggest that his surviving correspondence began to be collected into a Pauline corpus, which quickly circulated among the churches—first a shorter corpus of ten letters and soon afterwards a longer one of thirteen, enlarged by the inclusion of the three Pastoral
~ Philip W. Comfort
I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.
~ Pauline Quirke
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
~ Pauline Phillips
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
~ Pauline Kael
She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a novel, it would have portended the fall they were all about to take
~ Alice McDermott
This was the kind of moral dilemma Pauline often got her into. Mr. Someone-or-Other, Pauline had mouthed. Adele at lunch with him, crying. But Mr. Who? She turned to her typewriter, Pauline's eyes still on her. She would like to ask "Who?"—but to do so, in that same mouthing whisper Pauline had used, would be to enter too fully into Pauline's tale, Pauline's bitter triumph, and, in some way, into Pauline's unhappy life. But Mr. Who?
~ Alice McDermott
Pauline had restored order after the ordeal of the birth. She had swallowed her revulsion—what a mess it had made—restored order, made things right for the homecoming.
~ Alice McDermott
We have to see the entire Bible through Pauline eyes. It is the message of grace. A message of righteousness that comes through trusting, not from striving or contending. Furthermore, it is a message that the cross does more than forgive sins. It eradicates the inward propensity toward sin. It does not put you on a road toward union with God. It accomplishes that union in one ultimate stroke. This is the scandal.
~ John Crowder
Quelques mois plus tard, je donnai à un des quartiers d'Antinoé, le nom de ma soeur Pauline. [...] Pauline morte retrouvait dans cette ville de la mémoire sa place unique de soeur. Ce lieu triste devenait le site idéal des réunions et des souvenirs, les Champs Élysées d'une vie, l'endroit où les contradictions se résolvent, où tout, à son rang, est également sacré.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
What was happening was a maniacal assault on the inhabitants of the Paris prisons, with some of the royal family's most beloved attendants still incarcerated in the La Force. These included the Marquise de Tourzel and Pauline-and that hate figure so often in obscene popular publications, the lesbian paramour of the "Infamous Antoinette", the Princesse de Lamballe.
~ Antonia Fraser
Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.
~ Gertrude Stein
Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.
~ Pauline Marois
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
~ Jenna Wortham
If Pauline should see him close his eyes, she would never be offended or suspect boredom. She is fully conscious of her powers, appreciates the importance of good food, knows that books, particularly fiction, form a valuable core of experience, and believes she can trust Cruzzi absolutely to understand and follow the intricacies of her observations.
~ Carol Shields
There are in the Pauline teaching four important structural lines and in connection with these it will prove easiest and most convincing to test our thesis. These consist of the idea of the resurrection, the thought of salvation, the doctrine of the judgment and justification, the conception of the Spirit.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Echemos ahora un vistazo a los pasajes paulinos a fin de notar los contrastes éticos presentados en los escritos de Pablo: Romanos 12:2; Gálatas 1:4; 1 Corintios 1:2; 2:6; 2 Corintios 4:4 "la más fuerte de todas las declaraciones, pues llama a Satanás el dios de este mundo; Efesios 2:2, "la corriente (curso) de este mundo"; Colosenses 1:13; 2 Timoteo 4:10, "amando este mundo".
~ Geerhardus Vos
The Pauline statement that in Christ the old has passed away and the new has come is an eschatological statement. "The new aeon, which has dawned with Christ, brings a new creation, the creation of a new man.
~ George Eldon Ladd
The heart of the Pauline proclamation is the Lordship of Christ (2 Cor. 4:5).
~ George Eldon Ladd
Here we meet the familiar Pauline tension between the indicative and the imperative.
~ George Eldon Ladd
We cannot therefore speak of a Pauline theology as an abstract, theoretical, speculative system; but we can recognize a Pauline theology as an interpretation of the meaning of the person and work of Christ in its practical relevance for Christian life, both individual and collective.
~ George Eldon Ladd
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.
~ Pauline Kael
feeling that it was some betrayal of the awful trust I'd inherited from Pauline's promiscuous aunt.
~ Susanna Moore
I reminded myself that Pauline says they have to despise us in order to come near us, in order to overcome their terrible fear of us. She has some very romantic ideas.
~ Susanna Moore
That God's grace is utterly irresistible over the long run now seems to me the best interpretation of Pauline theology, as a majority of theologians in the West have always insisted.
~ Thomas Talbott