"Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful."
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"The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy."
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"In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin."
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"If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned."
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"The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh."
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"Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him."
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"Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion."
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"You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life."
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"The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed"
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"The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth."
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"Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty"
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"Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service."
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"Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord."
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"It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him."
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"Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man."
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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."
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"A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is."
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"In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end."
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"Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?"
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"Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace."
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