All Quotes

"These kids, they do not need us to win wars for them. They need us to build a world for them that will allow them to dream, to grow, to live."

"The worse thing you can do is to shut a woman up. You cannot do that. We really need to let our voice go out there and hopefully bring about better change."

"I strongly condemn the pointless killing of two innocent Filipinos caught in the fierce fighting between Israel and Hamas. This senseless violence must immediately stop to avoid further bloodshed and loss of life."

"There is hardly a branch of theological science which has till quite recently been brought to so little certain and recognised results as the history of the Christian Liturgy. This arose in the main from the practical necessity that the Catholic doctrine of the Holy Eucharist in the representative continuance and application of the sacrifice of Christ, in opposition to the Protestant polemic, should be shown to be the primitive Christian form. But in a period of more than three centuries little more was done than to collect the material, which recently from their great numbers, critical inquiry rather tended to confuse than to enlighten."

"He was an enthusiastic student and one of the foremost Semitic scholars of modern times."

"He was notable throughout a brief, thwarted career for the charm of his manner and his chivalrous ideals in public life. A good literary critic, he printed a few graphic prose sketches and some graceful verse."

"And I'ma bend it down, then I'ma lick her up and then dick her down. She gon' turn around then I'ma kick her out."

"And her pussy tastes like Skittles, what? Yeah, ayy. You can really taste the rainbow, what? Hah, no."

"I wake up, I throw up, I feel like I'm dead."

"She said she gay, but still into me."

"Xans don't make you. Xans gon' take you. Xans gon' fake you (yeah). And Xans gon' betray you."

"“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. “Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him."

"This parable shows that there are no partial solutions. There is no possibility of helping out just for a moment, or pretending to work, or doing only part of the job. Yes must be yes, and it must be a complete yes to all the work that is required. No should remain no, but there is divine grace that in an instant can turn someone who has said no into a person who follows the Lord."

"Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’ “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg— I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’ “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ “‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. “The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’ “Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied. “He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’ “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”"

"The “children of light,” that is, those who have to communicate God's truth, would have something to learn from this administrator: that love is greater than truth, that truth without love is not really truth. That, therefore, the rules of the game that selfish people have set for themselves are not enough for real truth. The truth in Christ is love, and in order to remain in the truth, even Christian truth must always learn from love."

"There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. [...] The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’ “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”"

"Christianity is present, with its wonderful parable of the prodigal son, to encourage us to be forgiving and merciful."

"Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”"

"In today's parable, Jesus says that God will not keep us waiting long, but will respond “promptly” to those who pray to him. But then, we immediately ask ourselves, why do so many of our prayers go unanswered? This is a serious and painful problem for believers, and we must beware of easy and simplistic answers. Jesus knew well that sometimes the fulfillment of prayer can be delayed, or even not happen at all, at least in our eyes. That is precisely why he told the parable of the widow, urging us to “pray always, without ever tiring.” If we cannot understand why God does not hear certain prayers, we can at least understand what a disaster it would be if He heard them all, every time. How many people have later blessed God for not hearing them when they asked for something, seeing what it would have deprived them of."

"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”"

"Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”"

"What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches."

"The comparison between the mustard seed and the kingdom of heaven places the smallest thing directly in relation to the greatest thing, that which is not yet visible with the infinite that human beings will never be able to grasp, since its concept surpasses all their concepts. The parable therefore refers to the most radical distance."

"Furthermore, it is clear from the outset that the relationship revealed by the parable must be something definitive, that both things, the growing grain and the lowering sky, are made for each other. God the Father gives his heaven to human beings. As Creator, he has not abandoned human beings, but has shown them the direction in which they must grow so that he can finally welcome them. If the mustard seed is faith, then it will be very clear what the role of faith in man must be: to grow, like the seed from the earth, from the substance of God's invisible grace that he welcomes into himself."

"“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’ “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’ “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”"

"The main thing to highlight about the parable of the rich man is its relevance today; it shows how the story repeats itself today, among us, on two levels: globally and nationally. [...] Two characters, two worlds: the first world and the “third world.” [...] But the same contrast between the rich man and poor Lazarus is repeated, on a different scale, within each of the two groups. There are rich men who live side by side with poor men in Third World countries (here, in fact, their solitary luxury is even more striking, amid the general misery of the masses), and there are poor men who live side by side with rich men in First World countries."

"May the young learn from Savio how to sanctify themselves, even in the midst of dangers, how to join holiness with cheerfulness, frankness with reserve, dignity with modesty, the interior life and intimate union with Our Lord with the diligent exercise of external duties; let them learn of him to be beloved by God and men, and thus to leave a holy memory to succeeding generations."

"May God forgive thee, for I forgive thee!"

"The murder of the legate Pierre de Castelnau sent a thrill of horror throughout Christendom like that caused by the assassination of Becket thirty-eight years before. Of its details, however, the accounts are so contradictory that it is impossible to speak of it with precision."

"In making his own calculation, however, Christopher Columbus preferred the values given by the medieval Persian geographer, Alfraganus: one degree (at the equator) is equal to 56.67 miles. That was Columbus’s first error, which he compounded with a second: he assumed that the Persian was using the 4 856-foot Roman mile; in fact, Alfraganus meant the 7 091-foot Arabic mile.Taken together, the two miscalculations effectively reduced the planetary waistline to 16,305 nautical miles, down from the actual 21,600 or so, an error of 25 percent."

"You climb a mountain situated close to the sea or a level plain, and then observe the setting of the sun and find out the dip of the horizon... [Then] find the value of the perpendicular of the mountain. You multiply this height into the sine of the complementary angle of the dip, and divide the total by the versed sine of this dip itself. Then multiply (twice) the quotient into 22 and divide the result by 7. You will get the... earth's circumference (in the same units) in which the height of the mountain has been found."

"“It was all quite awkward for me. Pageantry was completely outside my comfort zone,”"

"I experienced a mental block and ended up reciting a Bible verse related to nature.”"

"“I’ve always believed in the transformative power of education,”"

"“Then, I was given the Miss Universe Philippines crown.”"

"“As pageantry has grown in prominence, it’s disheartening to see how quickly people can judge based on minor missteps,”"

"“Pageantry today is not just about beauty; it’s about being a voice for others, expressing your thoughts, showing compassion, leading, empowering, and facing challenges, all while maintaining grace and composure. That’s the true power of pageantry.”"

"“During one of my interviews, I introduced the tagline #ForThePhilippines… it encapsulated my genuine intent of undertaking this journey not solely for myself but for my country.”"

"“The most valuable life lessons I’ve learned are, first, to embrace myself deeply, down to my core and soul… Second, it’s essential to always do your best, regardless of the outcome.”"

"“Whenever I have the opportunity to speak with young women, especially those participating in local pageants, I share my personal journey on how education played a pivotal role in my transformation and boosted my confidence.”"

"Hindi mo kailangan ng isa pa. Hindi ko sinasabi na hindi mo kailangan ng ka-love team," the veteran actress added. "Somewhere, sometime, somehow, kailangan meron ka ring ka-love team lalo na kapag growing up 'di ba.? (You don't need another one. I'm not saying you don't need a love team," the veteran actress added. "Somewhere, sometime, somehow, you need to have a love team too, especially when growing up, right?)"

"This is what it has come to in America. An aspiring-authoritarian president has assembled his own poorly trained army of aggressive thugs who hide their identities, flout legal procedures and use excessive force on a daily basis. And even when the force they apply proves lethal, the president, the vice president, a cabinet secretary and the rest of Trump’s lackeys and henchmen, defend these marauding goons with brazen lies that challenge citizens to not believe their own eyes. Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans rebelled against a king who was sending troops into American cities. Those British troops acted with far more restraint than the thugs to whom the Trump administration has given free rein to assault and even murder both citizens and non-citizens. As in 1776, the depredations of a new would-be tyrant must be resisted by all who love liberty. If that strikes you as melodramatic, tell it to the children of Renee Good."

"The big, macho men from ICE who are storming around American cities like Visigoths are a bunch of cowards. They arm themselves as if they are battling ISIS terrorists in Iraq while the only threat they face is common American citizens with whistles and protest signs. They break into private homes without warrants, they gas school kids, they tackle women on the street, they smash into the cars of American citizens. And one of them summarily executed a mother of three children because -- well, because he could. They think they are tough, but they are punks hiding behind masks. They are poorly-trained thugs dressed up like real soldiers who think they are living out a video game where they get points for assaulting anyone who gets in their way. They are the farthest thing from the real cops who police communities with restraint, discipline and a knowledge of the law."

"These mercenaries do not serve the country, they serve a regime that excuses their unjustified violence and lies about their lawless actions. President Donald Trump falsely alleges that Renee Good, the mother of three gunned down in Minneapolis by an ICE agent, was a “professional agitator” who showed “disrespect” for law enforcement. His toady press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who will say any despicable thing to please her boss, accused Good of being “a lunatic.” The Homeland Security boss, Kristi Noem, branded Good a “domestic terrorist.” There is zero evidence of any of the Trump administration’s slander. Renee Good was, indeed, out on the street to monitor the actions of ICE, but, as anyone can see in the video taken seconds before she was murdered, she was smiling at the ICE agents and telling them she was not mad at them. Good was, in fact, doing what she had been ordered to do, moving her vehicle out of the way. Trump and his team are even bigger cowards than the cosplay cops they have sent to terrorize immigrants and punish Democratic cities. It takes leaders with maturity and guts to admit fault and accept accountability. The cruel clowns in the White House will never be brave enough to do that."

"When is it correct to use the F-word? Not the four-letter one that has become so common it barely raises an eyebrow, the seven-letter political word: fascist. The term arose with the early 20th century European political movement that gave us Hitler and Mussolini, so it weighs heavy with the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. But, arguably, there are 21st century fascist regimes, even if they do not brand themselves with the term. Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orban, probably qualifies as a fascist. Russian President Vladimir Putin certainly does. Even the supposedly communist regime in China is more fascist than Marxist. Broadly defined, what is a fascist? Here are some key characteristics: A fascist supports a charismatic nationalist leader who seeks total or near total power. A fascist is a member of a party or a movement that supports that leader without question. Fascists believe political opposition is illegitimate and subversive and that perceived enemies of the state -- whether in the media, in popular culture, in academia or in competing political parties -- must be suppressed or, if it is the leader’s wish, prosecuted and tossed into prison. A fascist believes private industry, the courts and elected officials should all be in thrall to the leader. And a fascist has no objection to the leader’s quasi-military secret police committing acts of political violence and rounding up alien groups perceived to be a detriment to the homeland."

"Traditional conservatives are as anti-fascist as any liberal. Their political vision is derived by libertarian thinkers of past centuries, such as John Locke and Edmund Burke. Their modern philosophy was articulated by erudite commentators like William F. Buckley and George Will. Their political heroes are men like Ronald Reagan and John McCain. Today on the right, there are plenty of folks who call themselves conservatives -- they are all over social media, they fill every time slot of Fox News and they dominate the Republican Party. Yet, these claimants to a long tradition that favors limited government, the rule of law and the advancement of liberty are unquestioning supporters of a president whose actions are those of a lawless, aspiring dictator. These people who claim to be conservatives, yet enthusiastically cheer for a man who violates the core tenets of traditional conservatism every day, should stop pretending they are something they are not and simply accept the better description of what they have become. It is a word that starts with F."

"In Europe and even in India, there are still some who remember his name, and in Ceylon, the theatre of his Apostolic labours, his name is still mentioned by the older generation; but the rising generation hardly know what they owe to him. And yet, his is a name that ought to endure for ever."

"“I hope you understand this gesture and take it as an opportunity to learn how to honor your recipients with the respect they deserve.”"

"I can’t plan when to fall in love again. But if and when that time comes, the next one should understand how big a part Dolphy would always be in my life."

"“Making the most of it… you know life is short… The lesson learned is, let us not delay joy.”"