All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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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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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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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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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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