The right motivations can move the world.
Catalog
Umberto Contarello
I've always associated good mood with stupidity.
The right motivations can move the world.
Affliction changes us.
You have no idea how many objectives can be obtained by humiliating ones fellow man. But there's a secret to it. The person humiliated can't realize they'd been humiliated.
All I remember of my childhood is one day it wasn't there anymore.
No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.
Someday we will all come to appreciate the beauty of sacrifice.
Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.
Art passes too but a little more slowly because art is more cunning.
Like happiness, like intelligence Like God. When I was a boy a man took advantage of me. And as he did so, he would say: 'God does not exist.' And I would answer back, in God's place: Even if He doesn't exist, we desperately need to believe He is there.
It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.
You will come to me and you will tell me all this suffering in the world. And I will say to you: they are all hysterias of love. Distortions of our ability to love. The problem, brothers, is love. The question, then, is: how are we to love? This is my way: with tenderness, without passion. Passion…
Perhaps we cannot fully express our faith but we can express our tenderness.
I have decided not to choose. Not choosing being the only thing at which I truly excel.
Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.
My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.
Sex has no value, because it lives and dies in the present. But love doesn't. Love is dangerous, because it looks to the future.