"Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of societyâ€™s most neglected members."

-- Pope Francis

#Development Quotes #Christ Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.”
“Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“I blog; therefore, I am.”
“I'm the most successful bad player ever.”

Source : "Greatest competitor: Andy Roddick". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.
“The cultures of the Americas were extremely complex and interesting, with their own languages and observatories to watch the stars. The more you know about them the more you realize how extremely impressive they were. Bloodthirsty, though, I think they were as well.”
“By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.”
“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times â€” you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.Â ”
“But there's a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to be true about God, or whether we're going to judge what we hold to be true about God based on our circumstances.”

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