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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.
If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.
God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.
Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.
The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people.
Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!
The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.
We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.
This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.
Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.
For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.
Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.