Obxsusan

“If we want to be able to understand how peace is made, and have the strength to make it, let us all be childlike.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“And gossip and plausibility are the most treacherous opponents of the truth of things. There is always something devilish in gossip and in false accusation.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“On the other hand, since I was a child, I have always tried to avoid those who gossip, those who speak ill of others: I have always regarded this as a grave sickness that anesthetizes the heart. In the words of the Book of Sirach: “Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as by the tongue” (28:18), because gossip, mudslinging, is by no means an innocent vice: It is instead a plague that carries discord and suffering.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“it is that Sacrament, and that alone, the Christ living in our midst, and sacrificed by us, and for us and with us, in the clean and perpetual Sacrifice, it is He alone Who holds our world together, and keeps us all from being poured headlong and immediately into the pit of our eternal destruction. And I tell you there is a power that goes forth from that Sacrament, a power of light and truth, even into the hearts of those who have heard nothing of Him and seem to be incapable of belief.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain