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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
— Mortimer Adler
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One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception…
— Rick Santorum
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When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven,…
— Justin Martyr
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The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes…
— Christopher West
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Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or…
— Henri Nouwen
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A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.…
— Cyril Connolly
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Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
— James Redfield
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