My Name is Saul Quotes

“This last letter of yours must be a message filled with His truth, which is love.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your resources.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Saul,” he said, reaching out to clasp my hand in both of his, “you have always felt like a son to me.” My father’s business partner seemed untouched by the passage of the years.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“He is breaking the twenty-sixth law: the command to love all human beings in the covenant.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Confidence returned as I joined Father in the recitation of a verse that enveloped my soul with faith, trust, and deligh”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Another is a friend, a boon companion, who will not be with you when sorrow comes.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“In one way, it feels like six lifetimes, and yet I clearly recall my days of running along the beach of the Tarsus coast with my sisters, playing hide-and-seek behind the dunes.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Eight, Rabban.” Simeon proceeded to list and define all eight words, focusing on philautia, unique to the Greek, meaning the love of oneself that is essential to the health of both mind and body.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Gamaliel regarded me with neither judgment nor pity—a mercy for which I was profoundly grateful.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Like Hebrew, Greek is an emotional language—a language of the heart. Latin, not as much.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“What are the odds? A billion to one? Two indictments for murder in four years?”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“This is just a man... a man with great power over you, but just like anyone else, he got up this morning, showered, shaved, and slipped into his loafers”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Delving deep into what we know is unnatural and indefensible forces a plunge into the problem of evil. What is it? Why does it exist?”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Fiction writers are responsible for creating characters: they must sit beside us as we read the story. If they aren’t, we haven’t done our job.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“The terrible lesson was that she could do everything perfectly and make no mistakes; still, catastrophe could happen.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Nothing I’ve ever written has been as brutally taxing as this story... and fear is the primary reason.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“She felt pinned to the chair and tried to look everywhere but at seven faces filled with pure, unadulterated malevolence.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“A person like her would not have come into this beautiful world looking to control or manipulate; something must have created massive wounds in her psyche”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Time seemed to slow as she watched Prosecutor Emilio Martinez push back his chair, gather his notes, and rise.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“They were frightening, terrifying nights in jail, but they’d survived.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“A wolfish grin stayed on his face as he walked inexorably closer to the witness stand.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“She forced herself to study his shoes—a simple detail to anchor her sanity in the middle of chao.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Preparing to continue his battle of words in a high-stakes arena where truth itself was on trial.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“nonfiction, fiction-writing, authorship, writing-life, creativity”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“intensity, character-description, thriller, confrontation, stare”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting meant knowing you were lobbing an incendiary device into contemporary culture.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Because of what she had witnessed with her own eyes, she felt obligated to write it, regardless of the fallout”
― LIN WILDER, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Standing at the intersection of medical ethics and federal indictment, where courage is the only option left.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World