[Paul] emulated the love of earthly fathers, or rather, he surpassed them in ... love and concern and expended his money, his words, his body and soul, his all, for those he loved.
St. John Chrysostom
Whoever comes close to Paul
is transformed, bit by bit, and learns to live as he did, and to pray as he did.
Bl. James Alberione
Paul had no fear of suffering.
Since he must reproduce Christ in himself, it was not surprising that he should repeat Christ's sufferings.
Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr
Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr
By the same grace of God,
and at the same time, Paul was called by Him to the grace of the faith and to the apostolate.
Cornelius A' Lapide, SJ
Cornelius A' Lapide, SJ
There has probably seldom been
anyone at the same time hated with such a fiery hatred and loved with such strong passion as Paul.
Adolf Deissmann
Adolf Deissmann
The Risen One spoke with Paul,
called him to the apostolate, made him a true apostle, a witness of the resurrection, with the specific charge to proclaim the Gospel to the pagans, to the Greco-Roman world.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
[In Paul] we see a determination
that is explained only by a soul truly fascinated by the light of the Gospel, enamored of Christ, a soul sustained by a profound conviction.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Keep before you, also,
the example of St. Paul working so hard and suffering so much in the exercise of his mission. In the face of everything, he remained tireless, up to the time when he declared: ‘I have finished my course.’
Bl. James Alberione
Bl. James Alberione
No one ever wept
with as much feeling over his own misfortunes as Paul wept for the woes of others.
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
In his greatness
he was more ardent than any flame of fire in the crown of all virtues, namely, charity. Just as iron thrust into fire becomes all fiery, so Paul was consumed with charity and became charity incarnate.
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
Paul took delight
only in that which was above all else: the love of Christ.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 2 In Praise of St. Paul
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 2 In Praise of St. Paul
He would rather be in chains,
on a ship adrift at the mercy of the waves, in a city obsessed by pride and dissolute by evil living, than not to be an Apostle.
Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr
Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr
The pilot is proven
in the storm, the soldier in battle. The deep-rooted tree is never displaced even t hough the winds may buffet it. So, too, the Apostle Paul...spoke of not being downhearted but rather of being made better by adversities...
St. Cyprian of Carthage
St. Cyprian of Carthage
Paul also feels that he is
a true apostle and it seems clear, therefore, that the Pauline concept of apostolate is not restricted to the group of Twelve.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Having opened himself to Christ
with all his heart, he became able to engage in a wider dialogue with all, he made himself everything to all. Hence he could really be the apostle to the pagans.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Just as a fire grows as it catches
on to different materials and gains increases from what it comes in contact with, so the words of Paul converted to himself everybody that encountered them..
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
Paul made every member of the faithful
an apostle, so that all endeavored to increase Christ's glory, to spread the faith and lead parents, children, relatives...to embrace it.
Cornelius a Lapide, SJ
Cornelius a Lapide, SJ
Paul attained
higher perfection every day. He longed for greater hardships, greater struggles, greater dangers, and greater sufferings for Christ, in the same way that fire in a forest spreads until the entire forest is ablaze.
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
No one like Paul,
has demonstrated how the proclamation of the cross of Christ appears as 'a stumbling block' and 'foolishness,' to which many react with incomprehension and rejection.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Paul shows the way that leads there,
Peter unlocks the door of Heaven.
They stand against the enemy as two armed fortresses;
Towers of faith, whom the city, head of the world, contains.
Venantius Fortunatus
They stand against the enemy as two armed fortresses;
Towers of faith, whom the city, head of the world, contains.
Venantius Fortunatus
Paul scorned honors, riches, glory
and all earthly goods.... [for] his mind was accustomed to dwell constantly upon heaven.
Cornelius a Lapide, SJ
The Personality of St. Paul
Cornelius a Lapide, SJ
The Personality of St. Paul
The Apostle, since he concurs with God
for the building up of the Mystical Body of Christ, regards his work as similar to the maternity of Mary who gave life to Christ.
Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr
Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr
At the root of everything
lies the fact that he [Paul] is inseparable from Christ.
Carlo Cardinal Martini
The Testimony of St. Paul
Carlo Cardinal Martini
The Testimony of St. Paul
Why do you wonder if Paul,
when he calls some to himself, does not think it beneath his consideration to be concerned for their temporal welfare and makes reference to this in an epistle?
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
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