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.
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.
With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
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.
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.
Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
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.
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.
The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.
Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.
Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.
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