The greatness of work is inside man.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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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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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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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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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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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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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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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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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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