Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIEvery effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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