Quotes About Paul

His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

Paul drew, however, little more than hostility from those identified as the Orthodox party, for whom any change threatened their security.

In Paul's view, there seemed to be three principal ways in which tongues were of value: 1. In private prayer, tongues aided the speaker to praise God. 2. They let the speaker pray even at those times when he or she was not sure what to ask for. 3. And in public worship, when accompanied by another of the nine gifts, "interpretation," tongues provided a vehicle of direct communication between God and His people.

So this isn't in any sense acquittal through moral performance, or a reward for good conduct. It's not something earned by years of carefully crafted holiness. It's a wholly "free gift," as Paul says five times in the span of three verses.

Paul was a living example of what every true Christian should be. He lived for God's glory. . . . "For me to live is Christ." Philippians 1:21.—Our High Calling, p. 363.

The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Like my father, Trump also understands working-class Americans.

I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

But the danger is obvious: those who take this approach more often than not end up denying the potency of the Sermon and sometimes simply turn elsewhere—to Galatians and Romans and Ephesians—for their Christian ethical instruction. What many such readings of the Sermon really want is Paul, and since they can't find Paul in the Sermon, they reinterpret the Sermon and give us Paul instead.

Romans 12–16 is lived theology, and Romans 1–11 is written to prop up that lived theology. Romans 12–16 is not the application of Paul's theology, nor is Romans a classic example of the indicative leading to the imperative. What Paul had in focus was the lack of praxis, the lack of lived theology, the lack of peace in Rome, and he wrote Romans both to urge a new kind of lived theology (12–16) and to offer a rationale (1–11) for that praxis.

In Acts 10–11, in the encounter of the Torah-observant Peter with the God-fearing Gentile Cornelius, we see what "fulfill" looks like for the apostles: it means some radical revisioning without abolishing. Paul's words about accommodating himself to Gentile ways in 1 Corinthians 9:19–23 also illustrate how the apostles "applied" this claim by Jesus. Second lesson in Bible reading: looking to Jesus means following him and through him the Torah.

A lot of the communication value in a UML diagram is still due to the layout skill of the modeler. —Paul Evitts, A UML Pattern Language (Evitts 2000)

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!" Make us the kind of people, like Paul, who are so taken and captured with the gospel that all of life is measured in terms of the gospel—who you are and what you're up to, Jesus.

Paul's prediction about "the form of religion but denying the power" (2 Tim. 3:5) was being fulfilled.

There is nothing to suggest that true fasting involves abstaining from sleep. God may call us to do this for very short periods, such as giving up a night's sleep. Paul speaks of "watchings" as distinct from "fastings" (2 Cor. 6:5; 11:27, KJV).

Paul Fussell, in his book Wartime, has the best definition:

So Paul did not create the baptismal creed embedded in Galatians 3:26–28. The creed, then, must have preceded Paul. But there is not very much in the New Testament that precedes Paul. His voice is the first voice we hear from the nascent Christian movement. That makes Galatians 3:26–28 one of the oldest statements of faith in all of the New Testament, perhaps even the first such statement in all of Christian history.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

According to Paul, contentment is precisely what you and I are to study (Philippians 4:11). "Learn to be content," he tells us, understanding that if we're not content where we are today, we'll not be content wherever we plan on going tomorrow.

I soon discovered that the great Christian doctrines connected more pictorially and "asiatically" when I used the classical biblical stories than when I used contemporary (and mainly Western) systematic theologies. Matthew, the most systematic of the Gospels, proved to be the ideal vehicle for teaching the major, Orthodox, Catholic, and Reformation convictions. . . . I found the earthy Gospels to be much closer to my Asian students than the profound yet more abstract Paul.

Paul still carried considerable influence in policy circles,

If you're going to make a horror movie, it doesn't get any better than 'Alien,' and if you're going to make an action movie, it really doesn't get any better than 'Aliens.'