Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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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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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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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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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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