Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith
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Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith
On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth
Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.
Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever.
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.
Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.
If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
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.
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
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