Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWe 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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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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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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