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In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in which I allow myself to be prun...more

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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...more

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The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. ...more

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In the course of my intellectual life I experienced very acutely the problem of whether it isn't actually presumptuous to say that we can know the tru...more

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

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The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

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The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away...more

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How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and fre...more

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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to...more

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On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in a...more

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God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion...more

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Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the...more

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If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with ...more

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The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.

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God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.