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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.

Pope John Paul II

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Fabric Humanity Violence
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Catholic Silly Stupidity
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Christ Looks May
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Evolution Mean Men Theory
None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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Giving Poor Rich
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Church Counter Cultural
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Christian Forever Love
True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Beautiful Jesus Living Self True
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Creating God Joy Made
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Hope Nations People Without
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Catholic Church Teaching
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Capable Christ Life Risking Your
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
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Desire Men Women
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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Art Color Nourish Unique
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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Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
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Light Rosary Scripture
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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Church Men Spirit
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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Heart Life Men Productive
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Creative might Negative
Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Famous Father House Last Words
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
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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Catholic Jesus Light
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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Faith Giving Inspiration
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Christian People School
The greatness of work is inside man.
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Greatness Inside Man Men
Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Men Sovereign Way

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