Paul Quotes

“So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

“We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

“I agreed Paul knew his limits. But I never believed he'd choose to live within them.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

“I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.

So much for me. I am just fine.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

“But this is my contentment, that I've lost what I never needed and what I need I can never lose: these two things, universal nature and one's personal virtue.

For this is the intention of the creator of the world, whatever he may be - whether an all-powerful Deity, or some incorporeal Reason contriving vast works, or a divine Spirit pervading all things from the least to the largest with a uniform energy, or Fate, or an inalterable sequence of Causes clinging one to another - whatever the Intender, I say, this is his intention: that nothing of ours can fall under the control of others except that which is finally and truly worthless to us.

The best of any man lies beyond the power of other men, either to give it or take it away.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

“Between love and pride, pick love.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

“Saul made folks breathe faster, rush harder, laugh gladder. Die sooner.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul