Christian Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“As Saint Paul says, marry or burn.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that Paul says you can’t understand marriage without looking at the gospel.”

— Timothy Keller

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if…

— Bertrand Russell

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are some discrepencies in the writings of Paul. Some Christians chose those ones that say that women should be restricted in their services.…

— Jimmy Carter

“Despite his success as a missionary and leader, Paul was never without a wholesome, watchful fear that he himself might be disqualified (1 Corinthians…

— J. Oswald Sanders

“Paul repeatedly promises Christians that nothing can separate them from the love of that God who is “for” them.”

— George R. Knight

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the…

— Bertrand Russell

“St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“the age in which the Romish Church had made marriage a legalized tyranny, and the laity, by a natural and pardonable revulsion, had exalted…

— Charles Kingsley

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring…

— Timothy Keller

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following…

— Frank Harris