"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...

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 from God, who lives away from what is ...
~ Pope Benedict XVI ~












The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th...
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