The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThose in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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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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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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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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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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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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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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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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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Another name for peace is development.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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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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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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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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The 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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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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