The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.
If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.
It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.
Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
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.
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.
If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.
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.
Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.
When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.
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.
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.
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and not to take everything too tragically. I'd also say it's necessary for my ministry. A writer once said that angels can fly because they don't take themselves too seriously. Maybe we could also fly a bit if we didn't think we were so important.
Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.
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