The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.
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 the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.
Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.
Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.
What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'
Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.
The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.
If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.
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