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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.

Pope John Paul II

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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Jesus Light
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.
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Commitment Denial Self
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Catholic Love Men Purity
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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Evil Jesus Prayer
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
The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Blessed Earth Way
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
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Facts Moral Responsibility
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Christian People School
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Family Independence Lying Selfish
Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Hands Heart Landscape
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Peace Problem War
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 worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Hate Inspirational Love
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Children Christian Giving
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Country Example People Responsibility
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Matter Philosophy Views
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Catholic Justice
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Biblical People Tasks
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Faith Family Inspiration
Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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Catholic Lord Men
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Choices Conscious Humanity
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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Life Love Religious
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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Commitment Mean Self
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Let Religion Science Tell
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
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet

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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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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