The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Family that prays together, stays together.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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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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