Quotations

"God is living in our cities. The Church is living in our cities, and she wants to be like yeast in the dough. She wants to relate to everyone, to stand at everyone’s side."

— Pope Francis, Roman Catholic pope, born 1936

"Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason."

— Pope Francis, Roman Catholic pope, born 1936

"From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us."

— Pope Francis, Roman Catholic pope, born 1936

"If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble."

— Pope Francis, Roman Catholic pope, born 1936

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

— Anne Frank, German-Dutch Holocaust victim, born 1929

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

— Anne Frank, German-Dutch Holocaust victim, born 1929

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice."

— Robert Frank, American photographer, born 1924

"The eye should learn to listen before it looks."

— Robert Frank, American photographer, born 1924

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."

— Robert Frank, American photographer, born 1924

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

— Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, born 1905

"What is to give light must endure burning."

— Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, born 1905

"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."

— Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, born 1905

"Despair is an equation: D = S - M. Despair is Suffering without Meaning."

— Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, born 1905

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way."

— Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, born 1905