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Our Own Quotes by Pope Francis
- Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain,…
- Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not…
- We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.
- We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is…
- We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely…
- Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich…
- Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those…
- In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our…
- To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
- Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as…
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann