Anthony of Sourozh Quotes

• A menos que miremos a una persona y veamos la belleza que hay en ella, no podremos aportarle nada. No se ayuda a una persona discerniendo lo que está mal, lo que es feo, lo que está distorsionado. Cristo miraba a todos los que encontraba, a la prostituta, al ladrón, y veía la belleza que allí se escondía. Tal vez estaba distorsionada, tal vez dañada, pero no dejaba de ser belleza, y lo que hizo fue resaltar esa belleza.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Spiritual, Inner Beauty, True Beauty

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• You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Mother, Spiritual, Moving

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• It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Spiritual, Exercise, Profound

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• It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Vision, Saint, Holiness

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• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Rain, Humility, Sunshine

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• A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Prayer, Make Sense, Ifs

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• We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.

  Antonio de Sourozh

  Cristiano, Espiritual, Oración

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