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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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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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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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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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