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

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

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

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#4. I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

Michael Storm

#5. 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

#6. You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Suze Orman

#7. They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Red Auerbach

#8. The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

John McKinley

#9. 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

#10. She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?

Bob Marley

#11. 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

#12. Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.

Nicole Krauss