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- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed…
- Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
- How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search of divine mercy,…
- The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the…
- The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.
- The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are…
- Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only…
- If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this…
- A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak.…
- Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.
- Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by…
- The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least…
- Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
- From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what…
- God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
- We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not…
- The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different…
- Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
- It is important always to know that the first word, the true initiative, the true activity comes from God and only by inserting ourselves into…
- Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand…
- The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood…
- It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic…
- Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were,…
- Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus…
- The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle