None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo 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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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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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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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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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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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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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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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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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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