Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Quotes

#1. Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#2. The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Robert Bresson

#3. Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#4. Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#5. A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Norman MacCaig

#6. Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark - to make a difference.

Shawn Phillips

#7. Their handshake looked, for the first split-second he looked, like C.T. was jacking off and the little girl was going Sieg Heil.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Life is a gift, but living is a choice.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter and the world, a new attitude of humankind toward nature, and a new understanding of how we acquire and make use of our material goods.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#10. Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.

Rich Hall

#11. Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Tibor Kalman

#12. Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#13. You see, fallen man, in his pride, either thinks he has not fallen at all or that he can lift himself up, by himself, and make himself righteous on his own merits.

Matthew Christian Harding

#14. It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Peter Kreeft

#15. It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

Nico Rosberg

#16. Love has no time constraints.There is no time frame for when a person can fall in love with another,it just happens.It's spontaneous, unpredictable, it's timeless.

Becky Andrews

#17. Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

Jim Rohn

#18. We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#19. I am neither moral or immoral. I am amoral, and I express it through my kindness.

Debasish Mridha