We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnly the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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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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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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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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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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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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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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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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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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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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