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Rather Quotes by Pope John Paul II
- We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for…
- Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth…
- The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the…
- Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
- True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the…
- Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our…
- This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,…
- It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it…
- With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,…
- The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a…
More Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov