Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Justice from Love, and Love from Justice
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Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
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The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
-- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
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We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we’re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.
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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.
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Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love
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Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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