To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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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 saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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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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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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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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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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The 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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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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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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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