Raniero Cantalamessa Quotes

#1. People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers).

Raniero Cantalamessa

#2. Mercy?"
"Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.

Patricia Briggs

#3. The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

Raniero Cantalamessa

#4. Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Arthur Smith

#5. I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

Annie Potts

#6. Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Seneca.

#7. I believe that the most necessary thing to do on the feast of Corpus Christi is not to explain some aspect of the Eucharist, but to revive wonder and marvel before the mystery.

Raniero Cantalamessa

#8. We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

Raniero Cantalamessa

#9. A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories ... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Aaron Huey

#10. There is a lot of talk about the betrayal of Judas, and people are not aware that it is happening again. Christ is being sold again, not to the leaders of the Sanhedrin for thirty pieces of silver but to editors and booksellers for millions of dollars ...

Raniero Cantalamessa

#11. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine

#12. Just because the past taps you on the shoulder, does not mean you have to look back.

Wiz Khalifa

#13. I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love letter.

Elizabeth McCracken