Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

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

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.