Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria quotes

“I hope the day that all the Christians are one. This is my dream.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

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“Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

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“I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

Source : "Egypt's new Coptic pope faces delicate balancing act" by Abdel-Rahman Hussein, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

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“The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

Source : "Egypt's new Coptic Christian pope speaks out against Islamic tone in draft constitution", www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2012.

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“Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

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“I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

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“Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

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“We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.”
-- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

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“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”

“A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.

“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”

“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”

“The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.”

“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”