Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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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 measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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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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The 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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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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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 the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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