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 IIThe promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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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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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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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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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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