Now look at whoever is next to you. Look at them with eyes of joy and remember what St. Augustine said: 'If you want to see God, you have the means to do it.' God is love.
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Lenny Belardo
Lenny: Young people like you love adventures. Sophia: Holy Father, may I remind you that we're the same age? Lenny: We used to be the same age.
I won't say the names of those who are guilty in this. There are too many of them. We are all guilty. We are all guilty of war and death. Always.
You don't know how wonderful peace is. You have no idea how disconcerting peace can be. But I know. Because I saw it when I was eight years old on the banks of a river in Colorado peace. It was beautiful.
A good person is somebody who puts himself last, who renounces his own temptations and needs, working only for the interests of others.
Writers are all so obsessed with mystery. They can’t afford to solve the mystery, because the next day they’d become irrelevant.
It's death to settle for things in life.
My only sin, and it's an enormous one, is that my conscience does not accuse me of anything.
Virtuosity is for the arrogant.
I do not have an image, my good lady, because I am no one. Do you understand? No one. Only Christ exists. Only Christ. And I'm not worth forty-five, or even five euros. I am worth nothing.
Think of all the things you like. There, that's what God is.
The Vatican survives thanks to hyperbole.
You can't measure love with numbers, you can only measure it in terms of intensity.
I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me. God, the absence of God Always reassuring and definitive. I am a priest, I have renounced my fellow man, my fellow women, because I don't want to suffer, because I'm incapable of…
I'll strip you of all you have. Everything.
Every candidate for priesthood takes a vow of chastity and none of them respect them. That's the truth.
The whole world is dying of curiosity.
In the Sixties the young people that protested in the streets spouted all kind of heresies, all except one: power to the imagination. In that, they were correct.The only problem was they had no imagination.
Persuasive and stupid, like every politicians' speech.