Great Lion of God Quotes

“Let me think a moment! I am a man of peace, and peace is not to be despised. I do not speak of the peace of the slave, but of the peace a man experiences when he accepts the inevitable, which he cannot move. He must make his peace with reality. That does not bring a loss of pride. Once possessed of that tranquillity, a man can again live with dignity and even find worthiness in life. He can rediscover thought. It is civilization at its highest, and I hope I am a civilized man.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“As Aristotle said, long before Christ, a people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is obvious that we are repeating it today. Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” The Roman empire was declining in the days of Saul of Tarshish as the American Republic is declining today—and for the very same reasons: Permissiveness in society, immorality, the Welfare State, endless wars, confiscatory taxation, the brutal destruction of the middleclass, cynical disregard of the established human virtues and principles and ethics, the pursuit of materialistic wealth, the abandonment of religion, venal politicians who cater to the masses for votes, inflation, deterioration of the monetary system, bribes, criminality, riots, incendiarisms, street demonstrations, the release of criminals on the public in order to create chaos and terror, leading to a dictatorship “in the name of emergency,” the loss of masculine sturdiness and the feminization of the people, scandals in public office, plundering of the treasury, debt, the attitude that “anything goes,” the toleration of injustice and exploitation, bureaucracies and bureaucrats issuing evil “regulations” almost every week, the centralization of government, the public contempt for good and honorable men, and, above all, the philosophy that “God is dead,” and that man is supreme.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“As Aristotle said, long before Christ, a people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is obvious that we are repeating it today.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“Liberty, above all, has been the most profound ideal of Judeo-Christianity, liberty of mind and soul and body, a new concept among men. It is no wonder, then, that the foes of freedom first attack religion, which liberated mankind.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“He who seeks God will surely find Him—and let him beware when that happens, for it is a gift which can either kill or save or drive mad! Surely it is best only to love Him and let Him reveal Himself gently, as He wills, and not to demand all. For Moses alone saw the Face of God, and of that Vision, it is said, he expired.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“God is simple. It is only man which is an obscure darkness.” Reb Isaac threw him an approving glance. But David said, “I feel that nothing is simple, and nothing obscure. Only thought makes it so, and often I am weary of thinking.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“Liberty, above all, has been the most profound ideal of Judeo-Christianity, liberty of mind and soul and body, a new concept among men. It is no wonder, then, that the foes of freedom first attack religion, which liberated mankind. It may cheer many—and depress others—to realize that man never really changes, and the exact problems of Saul’s world are the same that confront us today. Cheer, in that man has an indomitable way of surviving his governments and his tyrants and surmounting them, and depressing that he never learns from his own experiences. As Aristotle said, long before Christ, a people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is obvious that we are repeating it today.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“Tumultuarios! ¡Proscritos!”
― Taylor Caldwell, El gran león de Dios

“«Yo jamás descanso –pensó Saulo–.”
― Taylor Caldwell, El gran león de Dios

“Un hombre no debe ser enteramente del mundo, a menos que pierda su alma, ni debe ser enteramente del espíritu, a menos que pierda su humanidad.”
― Taylor Caldwell, El gran león de Dios