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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOffer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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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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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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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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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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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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