God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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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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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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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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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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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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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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