“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.” IfsMenFirstsAgeChurchRiskStreetsHappeningsOrdinarySickAccidentsGoing OutWoundedOrdinary Man Author:Pope Francis
“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.” PeopleMenNeedsUseTodayAmericaNumbersStageFieldsDependsHappeningsForestsRationalReasonableGrainContinentsIrrationalFinitePlagueAttackingNorth AmericaMassacresPests Author:Edward Abbey
“Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.” MenWorldLooksCultureDivineProductsHolyEternalHappenings Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti