Quotes About Paul

Paul's claim to apostleship was that he had seen the risen Christ (1 Cor. 9:1). His calling had come directly from Christ, not from men nor through man (Gal. 1:1). He was commissioned as an ambassador of Christ (2 Cor. 5:20).

Paul teaches us many things in his letter to Philemon. Two of them are that we should take time to develop deep friendships and that we should write letters to communicate in an in-depth manner with our friends. These are two more things we can do to make leisure productive!

Paul never thought of himself as having chosen God—it was the other way: God had chosen him. This

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things.

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

requires going beyond the controversies that occasioned the letters to identify claims undergirding Paul's theology that are so fundamental either for Paul or for both Paul and his audience that they are assumed and therefore referenced merely obliquely and relatively rarely.

People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

For to Paul the chief actor in this drama had come upon the scene; the Messiah had been made present, and could not but be looked upon as henceforth the dominating figure in all further developments.

However, the reason for Paul's appeal to nature and conscience is not primarily to suggest that human beings have an intrinsic inner guide for correct ethical conduct. It is rather to assert that even those who do not have the revealed Law do have an inner sense of right and wrong, but have failed to be obedient to the light they have even as the Jews have failed to keep the Law.

Paul saw the root of all wickedness in irreligion

Therefore, when Paul proclaimed the eschatological meaning of Jesus' death, resurrection, and exaltation, he was proclaiming all that Jesus' life, deeds, and words had meant, and far more. His relative silence about Jesus reflects neither historical nor theological disinterest in Jesus, but only the actual situation in the unfolding of redemptive history. All that Jesus in history had meant was included, and enlarged, in the preaching of the exalted one.

It is not at all clear that Paul conceived of baptism as the Christian equivalent of circumcision.65 The "circumcision of Christ" (Col. 2:11) is easiest to understand as the circumcision of the heart that Christ performs.66 This is an altogether spiritual event, one "made without hands," and is synonymous with dying to sin. Circumcision then stands in contrast to baptism, not in correlation with it.67

The purpose of the passages is to argue that Paul enjoys the same apostolic authority as those who were apostles before him (Gal. 1:17), because he, like them, received his commission and his gospel directly from the Lord.

The kerygma of Paul is essentially the same as that of Jesus, namely, that in the person and mission of Jesus God has visited human beings to bring them the messianic salvation.

The events of the eschatological consummation are not merely detached events lying in the future about which Paul speculates. They are rather redemptive events that have already begun to unfold within history.

We did visit, eight months ago. Which was why Paul had had to work extra hard to convince Curran that there was absolutely no way to put a moat around our new residence. He still wanted it and swore he'd find a way somehow.

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.

Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.