Quotes About Tarsus

#1. Saul of Tarsus, in other words, had found a new vocation. It would demand all the energy, all the zeal, that he had devoted to his former way of life. He was now to be a herald of the king.

N. T. Wright

#2. Though it was the Young Men's Christian Association, Paul of Tarsus had little to do with it. The showers were cruisy, and the sauna even more so.

Trebor Healey

#3. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.

Philip Yancey

#5. Saul of Tarsus on the Damascene road.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#7. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Robert Barron

#8. During the Roman occupation of Palestine, Christianity was founded by Paul of Tarsus as a less ruthlessly monotheistic sect of Judaism and a less exclusive one, which looked outwards from the Jews to the rest of the world.

Richard Dawkins

#9. I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

Harold Perrineau

#10. Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#11. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Albert Einstein

#12. He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.

Annie Barrows

#13. The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

#14. It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

Tim Powers

#15. Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

Jerry Yang

#16. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Doug Larson

#17. They also serve who only stand and wait.

John Milton

#18. She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

Henry James

#19. Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

Robert Teeter

#20. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Harold Bloom