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 IITake 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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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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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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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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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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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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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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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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