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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Pope John Paul II

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Atheist Culture Giving
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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Commitment Denial Self
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Capable Christ Life Risking Your
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Family Salvation Way
The greatness of work is inside man.
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Greatness Inside Man Men
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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Commitment Mean Self
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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Faith Inspiration Men
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Children Pride World
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Maturity Men Work
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Environmental Pattern Profound
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.
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Believe Jesus Running
[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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Age Perfect Soul
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Catholic Christian Suffering
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Choices Evil Heart
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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Holy Mass Moments
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Catholic Coincidence Design

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