"Pope Francis has taught us by his example how we can witness with our lives and actions to our faith and moral principles, but still engage respectfully with those who disagree. He's urged us to find a "new balance," going beyond the few wedge issues of our politics, so we do not lose the "freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.""

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

John I. Jenkins

#Taught Us Quotes #Issues Quotes #Balance Quotes

“There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.”
“Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich (2007). “Night Has a Thousand Eyes”, p.77, Pegasus Books
“Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.”
“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
“Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.”
“Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!”

Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.105
“It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.”

Source : "These Girls Could Save Your Marriage". www.express.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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