Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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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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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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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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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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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