Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greatness of work is inside man.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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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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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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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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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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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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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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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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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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