Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.
There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.
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 in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.
Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.
Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your peers but adults too, especially those who seem more distant from the mindset and values of the Gospel, are crying out to see someone who dares to live according to the fullness of humanity revealed by Jesus Christ.
When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.
Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
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 friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.
Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.
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