Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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.
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.
See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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.
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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.
Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.
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.
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.
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.
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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