86 quotes found
“Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel's obscure speech, and, much surprised, she asked him, So Jesus is my son and the son of the Lord, Woman, what are yo...”
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of th...”
“Holding the lamb in his arms, Jesus watched the people file past, some coming, some going, some carrying animals to be sacrificed, some returning without them, looking joyful and exclaiming, Allelu...”
“We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep”
“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”
“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resig...”
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has always existed. It was not an invention of the philosophers ...”
“what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves”
“Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.”
“old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she...”
“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.”
“There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we ...”
“Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for...”
“The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.”
“The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy sol...”
“Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let ones thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce, ...”
“... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.”
“...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.”
“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
