The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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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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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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