Vincent Nichols Quotes

• The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love of God who brings into being the eternal soul that comes to every human being with the gift of human life.

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  Husband, Wife, Creative

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• We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

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  Skills, Community, Important

  "Archbishop Vincent Nichols voices fears over social networking sites". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

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  Lasting Happiness, Profound, Gains

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• In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

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  Flower, Sacrifice, Maturity

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• My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

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  Parent, Crosses, Foreheads

  "My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop" by Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

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  Good Life, Ambitious

  "'My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop'". Interview With Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

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  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide, warns Archbishop Nichols" by Jonathan Wynne-Jones, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 1, 2009.

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