To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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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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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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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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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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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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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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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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