The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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