Quotations (17)

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Ok, so, who is the most important author of the last twenty years? Careful now, not the best, virtuosity is for the arrogant, the most important, the author who has sparked so much morbid curiosity that he became the most important? -I…
How to pray: Holy Father Would you teach me to pray? -Start praying aloud. Let me see how you do it. Blessed Virgin Mary, give me the grace of becoming pregnant. -Prayer shouldn't be a list of requests, Esther. It should be an occasion…
I am a contradiction. Like God. One in three and three in one. Like Mary, virgin and mother. Like man, good and evil. === Mother Let me explain something to you, that you, in your long life, have not yet had the occasion to understand:…
"Dear Tommy, think of all the things you like. There, that's what God is". === The Vatican is a State. There is politics, finances, there are delicate balances and grave dangers, if those balances are upset. -Yes, but there are also…
The Pope points to the sky and the stars. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? You don't see Him? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God,…
You! You have forgotten God. I want to be very clear with you. You have to be closer to God than to each other. I am closer to God than I am to you. You need to know that I will never be close to you. Because everyone is alone before…
Out there, everyone must learn that it takes sacrifice and suffering to find God. It's too easy to come to terms with God as the sun is setting. They have to find Him in the cold and the dark of night. The way I did. "Absence is presence."…
Cut out this dime-store psychoanalysis and work with me. I don't work with nine-year-old boys. === I wanted you to know. -Know what? That I loved your homily. -That's not enough! Because it's not enough to just love it, you also need to…
He's come to the conclusion that there's nothing He can do about human beings. He's decided that He's lost the "u". === Our abuse of forgiveness we've become a laughingstock. As unreliable as some miserable little third-world…
Brother Cardinals, we need to go back to being prohibited. Inaccessible and mysterious. That's the only way we can once again become desirable. That is the only way great loves stories are born. And I don't want any more part-time…
I know you will obey, because ... that means this Pope does not negotiate. On anything or with anyone. And this Pope cannot be blackmailed! From this day forth, the word "compromise", has been banished from the vocabulary. I've just…
I can restore the "non expedit". The Catholics will all rush to Google those words. What do they mean? The "non expedit" means that the Holy Father decrees it is unacceptable for Catholics to vote in the Italian elections. === Every…
The foolish ones go with women on the sly. The wise ones long ago understood the degree to which sex, as a source of pleasure, has overvalued in our society. -Your Holiness, with a few words you have just razed to the ground three quarters…
The Church has always maintain this tradition and it is only modern laxity that wishes to turn sins into rights. Not to encourage them, no one is actually in favor of abortion, but to undermine the principle of authority. === We are all…
St. Alphonsus said about abortion: "In an abortion everyone is guilty, except for the woman." And what if that wasn't only true of abortion? What if in the things of life everyone is guilty, except for the woman? -Are you talking about…
You changed. Since you came back from your trip. -In what way have I changed? You've transformed fear into anger. === After all, look at us, we are power. And power is a banal platitude. === All I remember of my childhood it is one day it…
" ... God does not allow Himself to be seen. God does not shout. God does not whisper. God does not write. God does not hear. God does not chat. God does not comfort us." And all the children asked her: "Who is God?" And Juana replied:…