Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.
Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.
See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.
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