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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.

Pope John Paul II

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Artist Beauty Talent
Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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Balance Men Travel
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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Hatred Passion Struggle
The greatness of work is inside man.
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Greatness Inside Man Men
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Christian People School
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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Catholic Spirit Suffering
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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Christian Essentials Responsibility
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Grace Hands Mother
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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Actors Humanity Order
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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Baptism Done Prayer
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Catholic Hatred Light
Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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Continuously God Heart Joy Prayer
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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Catholic Death Dying
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Challenges Order Routine
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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Faith Inspiration Responsibility
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Country Punishment World

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 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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