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Love
is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.
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Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only
Love
will remain.
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The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of
love
that overcomes evil with good.
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The unbreakable bond between
love
of God and
love
of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we
love
God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that
love
of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.
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Many people today lack hope. They are perplexed by the questions that present themselves ever more urgently in a confusing world, and they are often uncertain which way to turn for answers. They see poverty and injustice and they long to find solutions. They are challenged by the arguments of those who deny the existence of God and they wonder how to respond.. Where can we look for answers? The Spirit points us towards the way that leads to life, to
love
and to truth. The Spirit points us towards Jesus Christ. In him we find the answers we are seeking.
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Only if there is
love
, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
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Love
has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature,
love
is enduring. The Holy Spirit offers our world
love
that dispels uncertainty;
love
that overcomes the fear of betrayal;
love
that carries eternity within; the true
love
that draws us into a unity that abides!
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To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of
love
and in order to become a person who truly
loves
— these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.
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You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive
love
, or power.
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Because God
loves
us, because He wants us to grow into truth, He must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us
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Too often, though, the beauty that is thrust upon us is illusory and deceitful, superficial and blinding, leaving the onlooker dazed; instead of bringing him out of himself and opening him up to horizons of true freedom as it draws him aloft, it imprisons him within himself and further enslaves him, depriving him of hope and joy. It is a seductive but hypocritical beauty that rekindles desire, the will to power, to possess, and to dominate others, it is a beauty which soon turns into its opposite, taking on the guise of indecency, transgression or gratuitous provocation. Authentic beauty, however, unlocks the yearning of the human heart, the profound desire to know, to
love
, to go towards the Other, to reach for the Beyond.
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Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying
love
. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.
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The world needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading interior emptiness, unnamed fears, a quiet sense of despair. How many of our contemporaries have built broken and empty cisterns in a desperate search for meaning - the ultimate meaning that only
love
can give?.... The Church also needs this renewal! She needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit!
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Being a Christian means having
love
. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
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God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded
love
.
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Authentic
love
is obviously something good. When we
love
we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs. How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality into human relationships! This is worship of a false god; instead of bringing life, it brings death.
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Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his
love
, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.
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Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and
love
have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
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We have to let God's
love
break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age. Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires. That is why prayer is so important: daily prayer, private prayer in the quiet of our hearts and before the Blessed Sacrament, and liturgical prayer in the heart of the Church.
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God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his
love
can truly become the dominant measure of the world.
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The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the
love
that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
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Love
is free; it is not practised as a way of achieving other ends.
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God
loves
us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
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Love
— caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its origin in God, Eternal
Love
and Absolute Truth. Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32). To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, rejoices in the truth (1 Cor 13:6).
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Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the
love
that we receive there is always an element that surprises us.
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As the source of our new life in Christ, the Holy Spirit is also, in a very real way, the soul of the Church, the
love
that binds us to the Lord and to one another, and the light that opens our eyes to see all around us the wonders of God's grace.
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Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying
love
be your measure; abiding
love
your challenge; self-giving
love
your mission!
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Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to
love
of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.
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Celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom means embracing a life completely devoted to
love
, a
love
that enables you to commit yourselves fully to God's service and to be totally present to your brothers and sisters, especially those in need.
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For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new
love
that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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Born:
April 16, 1927
Died:
December 31, 2022
(aged 95)
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