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

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.

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.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.

Patient endurance is the greatest life survival skills.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.