“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“I encourage you to welcome refugees into your homes and communities, so that their first experience of Europe is not the traumatic experience of sleeping cold on the streets, but one of warm welcome.”
"Pope: welcoming refugees helps keeps us safe from terrorism", Lexington Herald-Leader (17 September 2016) http://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/world/article102453732.html
2010s, 2016
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Pope Francis 113
266th Pope of the Catholic Church 1936Related quotes
"Song" in The Port Folio Vol. 1, No. 1 (11 January 1806), p. 79; also in Poems of the Late Francis Scott Key, Esq. (1857), p. 34.
Context: When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,
To the home and the country he nobly defended,
O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,
And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:
In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,
To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,
Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,
And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.
“Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home.”
Haiku aboard NASA spaceship MAVEN, Mars mission (2013)
“I feel more welcome among the black communities than I do among Coloureds”
Upon the resignation of Allan Hendrickse from cabinet, as quoted by Michael Parks, Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-25-mn-4089-story.html, 25 August 1987