by | Apr 8, 2019 | Divo Barsotti, Quote of the month
Remember that fraternal love is one that is given in unceasing forgiveness, because we always need to forgive others as we always need to be forgiven; it is in mutual forgiveness that love truly becomes incarnate, just as the love of Christ became incarnate in His...
by | Apr 8, 2019 | Divo Barsotti, Quote of the month
My Christian calling requires before anything else my commitment to carry out the mission of Jesus and this means that I cannot accept living in a restricted community: “We feel good living together, but let us leave others out”. Or: “we feel comfortable in the...
by | Apr 8, 2019 | Divo Barsotti, Quote of the month
God is to you what you want Him to be. If you are self-satisfied, if you think you are worth something, then there is no place for God, because God wants to be everything. And if God is to be everything to you, it is necessary that you should be nothing, that you...
by | Apr 8, 2019 | Divo Barsotti, Quote of the month
I converted to Christianity because I read Dostoyevsky’s works; and if I hadn’t read them, I would not be a priest today — I say this with all sincerity. If it hadn’t been for Dostoyevsky, today I would be a writer, a poet, whatever, but not a priest and perhaps...
by | Apr 8, 2019 | Divo Barsotti, Quote of the month
If we are to live by the law of love, a law which makes nothing foreign to us, it is imperative to bring the life of the whole universe into one’s our own life. Nothing more, nothing less. I cannot accept simply being the “person I am.” I cannot and I will not. The...
by | Apr 8, 2019 | Divo Barsotti, Quote of the month
If you want to know whether you love God, whether you are really Christian, ask yourselves: Are you accepting of each other? Are you really able to love one another, without being in opposition or in conflict, without feeling distrustful of one other? If you are able...
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