To the one who loves St. Paul,

he does not appear as a stern wielder of the sword, but as the most ardent and tender person ever to love Christ.

Bl. James Alberione

The heart of Paul

is the heart of Christ; the word of Paul is the word Christ speaks through him.... He carries Christ to others, and gives himself wholly to the life of Christ.


Igino Giordani
St. Paul, Apostle and Martyr

At other times

he showed a real feeling for them that was not only paternal but also maternal, such as when he turned to those he was addressing, calling them: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you" (Gal 4: 19).

Pope Benedict XVI

After his encounter

with the Risen Christ... Paul could not continue to live as he did before. Now he felt invested by the Lord with the charge to proclaim his Gospel as an apostle.

Pope Benedict XVI

We must not think

that Paul locked himself blindly in an event. In reality, the opposite occurred, because the risen Christ is the light of truth, the light of God himself. This enlarged his heart, and opened it to all.

Pope Benedict XVI

Captivated by [Paul's] words,

those who warred on him quickly became fuel to this fire of the Holy Spirit, so that through them the word spread further and reached others.

St. John Chrysostom

[Paul was]

the rhetorician of Christ, the fisherman of the world who, by means of fourteen letters, real spiritual nets, draws the world to salvation.


St. John Chrysostom