"Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife."
"No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ."
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Source: Sermon by Pope Paul VI at the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal (May 13, 1967), as reported in The New York Times (p. 47), May 14, 1967.
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