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• Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and… — Pope John Paul II
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• When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. — Josemaria Escriva
• Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always… — Frederick Rolfe
• Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history… — Jaroslav Pelikan
• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its… — William Butler Yeats
• The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it… — Frederick Buechner

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