The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness. - Pope Benedict XVI

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Pope Benedict XVI

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Faith, Greatness, Inspiration, Promises, World

Same Author Quotes

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

Background, Backgrounds, Heart, Make, Welcome, Welcoming

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

God, Loved, Necessary, Result, Results, Thought

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Certain, Ego, Goal, Moving, Relativism, Toward

Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ. . . Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians. . . Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.

Christian, Christians, Heart, Philosophy, Pray

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Divine, Political, Politician, Politicians, Politics, Work

Similar Quotes

Jürgen Moltmann

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Attitude, Capitalism, Institutionalized, Long, Men, Misery

Lukas Foss

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Doe, Feel Good, Good, Mean, Music, Understand

Robert Mugabe

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions,. . . Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Commercial, Constituency, Land, Reform, Sanctions, Tell

Carl Lewis

Doe, Life, Lower, Moral, People, The End Of The Day

Edward Snowden

We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

Cyber Warfare, People, Same, Scale, Technique, Techniques