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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.

Pope John Paul II

A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use
[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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Age Perfect Soul
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Faith Inspiration Reality
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Example Friends Perfection Young
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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Christian Essentials Responsibility
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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Giving Poor Rich
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Church Energy Moments
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Life Matter Return
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Adoration Blessed Christian Eucharistic
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Faith Inspiration Love

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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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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