Quotes About Saul

23Whenever the [evil] spirit of God came upon Saul, David would take the lyre and play it;a Saul would find relief and feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed

God met with Michal also, for despising her husband, merely upon a religious ac count, because he showed a holy zeal for God, which her proud spirit, as many others since have done, thought it too mean and base to do. Well, what is her punishment? 'Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child unto the day of her death.' The service of God was too low for a king in her thoughts, therefore shall none come out of her womb to sit on the throne or wear a crown.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

The deep and abiding significance of Saul's encounter is that he hears Jesus speak as if there's a moral equivalence between Jesus and the people Saul is persecuting.

And God said, Let there be light. God said that, Saul, and He has come from so far away, and His home is gone, but His purpose remains. Would you deny Him His new kingdom?

The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.

The stories of Saul and David interlock antithetically on the theme of knowledge. Saul, from first to last, is a man deprived of the knowledge he desperately seeks.

I remember you, Saul. I remember the keeper of the light.

Michal leaps out of the void as a name, a significant relation (Saul's daughter), and an emotion (her love for David). This love, twice stated here, is bound to have special salience because it is the only instance in all biblical literature in which we are explicitly told that a woman loves a man.

Afghanistan. Afghanistan is named after the biblical King Saul's grandson. Afghana, according to legend, which has traditionally described the Afghanistan people as Ben-i-Israel, "Children of Israel." Legend also has it that King Solomon' (Sulaiman) settled the country. Whether such stories, and many more, are true or not, they are widely believed, and the country does bear Afghana's name.

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Is Saul also among the prophets?

Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Again! It was like the question asked by Tennyson about the flower in the crannied wall. That is, to answer it might involve the history of the universe.

As for Thea, sometimes she looked more barbarous than they did in spite of the civilized lipstick and conventional shape of the jodhpurs she wore.

As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary.

But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would appear.

Grielescu was a famous scholar, not exactly a follower of Jung—but not exactly not a Jungian. He was a hard one to place.

Gratitude! I was deeply grateful. But the politic gratitude of weakness, of the sufferer, furious underneath.

Because you're a highbrow and married a highbrow broad. Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick. You guys can't answer your own questions—