Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITrue holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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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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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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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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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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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 most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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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.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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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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