Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIJesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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Know what you are talking about.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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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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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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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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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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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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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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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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