In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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