Lydia Van Calster

“What most endangers us as an earth community today is that we have neglected our interrelationships - as countries, faiths, and races. The reality is that we need one another. We will be well to the extent that we all are well. We will be truly strong to the extent that we faithfully protect one another's well-being, not simply the well-being of our people, our community, or our species.”
― John Philip Newell, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

“We must not stumble upon tomorrow, we must build it, and we all have the responsibility to do so in a way that responds to the project of God, which is none other than the happiness of mankind, the centrality of mankind, without excluding anyone.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“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 it is indifference that feeds prejudice and stirs bitterness. How many times do we judge too quickly, with words that hurt, with attitudes that sow the seeds of hatred and create distance. But when someone is left behind, the whole human family comes to a halt. We are not truly Christian, nor even human, if we cannot see the person before his actions, before our opinions and prejudices.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography