Raniero 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. 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

#3. You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

#4. I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

Hugh Jackman

#5. (Honestly, Raniero, are we the only noble-born Vladescus who would know, for certain, that Bluetooth is not some dread, vampire-specific disorder involving lack of oxygen to the gums? I fear it is true.)

Beth Fantaskey

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. You are the silence and madness of my mind.

Nessie Q.

#9. We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.

Maria Nemeth

#10. I melted, my emotions softening into this huge, gooey ball of adoration. I wanted to laugh and cry and hug him until I decided having a boyfriend who slept with scores of other women for money wasn't really that big of a deal.

Linda Kage

#11. 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

#12. A metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

Max Black

#13. It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.

Amy Ray

#14. Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
Thou madest Life in man and brute;
Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
Is on the skull which thou hast made.

Alfred Tennyson