The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

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