Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
From Pope Benedict XVI
We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.
We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.
The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.
On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.
Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.
Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
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