How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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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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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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