An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.