Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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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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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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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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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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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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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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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 purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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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 most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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