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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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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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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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Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of 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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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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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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True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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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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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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