"The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself; they are asking for mystery, even if they do not realize this themselves. They need the sign of the wholly Other, the living Word of God, entering into this our age in unadulterated trustworthiness and dynamism."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Faith Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #People Quotes

“I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.”
“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”
“He who controls the past commands the future, He who commands the future, conquers the past.”
“All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.”
“There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.”
“I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.”
“I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.”
“We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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