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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

Pope John Paul II

When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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God Men Order Peace
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Art Purpose Spirit
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Catholic Crosses God Love
The 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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Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
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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Faith Inspiration Men
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Challenges Order Routine
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Hope Nations People Without
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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Heart Horizon Today
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men Sacrifice Self
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Christ Looks May
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Maturity Men Work
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Effort Humanity Saint
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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Faith Father Inspiration
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Catholic Justice
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Faith Inspiration Love
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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Given Love People Unconditional
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Generosity Measure Success
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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Mean Pleasure Way
[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
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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Catholic Spirit Suffering
The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Breathe Church Lungs Two
The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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Grace Priceless Treasure
Let me go to the house of the Father.
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