Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Spiritual #Taken #Arrogance
Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Spiritual #Prayer #Important
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter and the world, a new attitude of humankind toward nature, and a new understanding of how we acquire and make use of our material goods.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Attitude #Understanding #Different
We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Victory #Brotherhood #Violence
Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Peace #People #Violence
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Men #Self #Luxury
Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.
-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

#Responsibility #Hunting #Fishing

We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.
If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
Arrogance can be deadly.â€ The corners of his mouth crept up. â€œBut you didnâ€™t hear me say that.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople famous quotes

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