Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII (1958-1963)

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A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.

Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity. Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity.

It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

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Blessed Mother Theresa 1

Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.

I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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Mahatma Gandhi 2

Mahtama Gandhi on Non-violence

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.

Truth is my God.

Non-violence is the means of realizing Him. Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.

Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith.

It is also the last article of my creed.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Peace is its own reward.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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Mahatma Gandhi 1

Insights from Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. God is, even though the whole world denies him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. <<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> From: brainyquote.com <<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> Contact E-Mail: vmalpan.blogspot.com Thank you for visiting this blog.

Blessed Mother Theresa 2

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.

So, spread your love everywhere you go. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Peace begins with a smile. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

There are no great things, only small things with great love.

God is the friend of silence.

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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