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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of lov...more

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All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in ...more

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All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not ...more

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Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and sa...more

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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divi...more

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It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they miss when they suffer. They seem to forget that even ...more

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It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul...more

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The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a unifor...more

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Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for l...more

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Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visit...more

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The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedo...more

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Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, ...more

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The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever under...more

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The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The sa...more