Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIArtistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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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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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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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