Pope Shenouda Quotes

#1. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.

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#3. My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.

Donald Trump Jr.

#4. Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

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#5. If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

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#6. The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

Claire Danes

#7. What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable.

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#8. We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

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#9. There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

Morris Sheppard

#10. Calm can solve all issues.

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#11. You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

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#12. The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

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#13. Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

Bertrand Russell

#14. Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

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#15. We will be judged by how well we love.

Toni Morrison

#16. Violence is absolutely not our method.

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#17. Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

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#18. A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

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#19. As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.

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#20. The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

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#21. The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

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