Martin Svoboda

“Truth may be vital, but without love, it is unbearable. Caritas in veritate.”

“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”

“We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all…”

“It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.”

“When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame.”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”

“When making plans, think big. When making progress, think small.”

“There is a human tendency to desire and even artificially create a sense of certainty.”

“Our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.”

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“The opposite of every great truth is also a great truth”

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”

“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”