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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

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 historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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Countries Country Historical Socialist
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Art Talent Waste
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Catholic Coincidence Design
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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Children Family Home
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men Sacrifice Self
Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Commitment Mean Self
From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Gone Son Surrender
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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Catholic Past War
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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Life Sacred World
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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Husband Life Love
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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Prayer Rosary Simplicity
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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Faith Heart Inspiration
Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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Healing Kindness Light
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
Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Famous Father House Last Words
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Child Children Family Newborn
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Faith Inspiration Responsibility
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Itself Prevail Virtue
Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Actors Humanity Order
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Facts Moral Responsibility
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Hate Inspirational Love
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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Christian Humble Prayer
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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Believe Jesus Running
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Hope Nations People Without
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

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