Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe worst prison would be a closed heart.
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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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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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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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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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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