Encyclical Laudato Quotes

#1. We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si," the Earth is our common home.

Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

#2. However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

Sigmar Gabriel

#3. The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Anthony The Great

#4. How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

Herbert Hoover

#6. I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

Jesse Ventura

#7. If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

Sean Lennon

#9. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

George Ade

#10. I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

Walt Disney

#11. It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

Cristina Garcia

#12. In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

Harry Kemelman