"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 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.
~ Pope Benedict XVI ~












The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'comma...
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