A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOffer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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The 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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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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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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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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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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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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