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God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission - I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next… I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.

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Cardinal John Henry Newman (via catholicanswers)

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If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined—good—state of the world, man’s freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all. What this means is that every generation has the task of engaging anew in the arduous search for the right way to order human affairs; this task is never simply completed. Yet every generation must also make its own contribution to establishing convincing structures of freedom and of good, which can help the following generation as a guideline for the proper use of human freedom; hence, always within human limits, they provide a certain guarantee also for the future. In other words: good structures help, but of themselves they are not enough. Man can never be redeemed simply from outside.

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Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi, par. 24b-25 (via badwolfcomplex)

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If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.

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Pope Benedict XVI (via catholicanswers)

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Do natural laws and natural systems come from God also? Yes. The laws of nature and natural systems are also part of God’s creation. Man is not a blank slate. He is shaped by the order and the natural laws that God has inscribed in his creation. A Christian does not simply do “whatever he wants”. He knows that he harms himself and damages his environment when he denies natural laws, uses things in ways contrary to their intrinsic order, and tries to be wiser than God who created them. It demands too much of a person when he tries to design himself from start to finish.

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Youcat (via rainyautumntwilight)

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We are not some casual or meaningless product of evolution. 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.

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Pope Benedict XVI (via rainyautumntwilight)

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Just as two friends, frequently in each other’s company, tend to develop similar habits, so too, by holding familiar converse with Jesus and the Blessed Virgin, by meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the same life in Holy Communion, we can become, to the extent of our lowliness, similar to them.

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Blessed Bartolo Longo (via catholic-inspiration)

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For if God calls each of us individually, he calls us with both our gifts and our failings. And it is in our failings, and in parts of our lives that embarrass us, that we are often drawn closest to God

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For I Am A Sinful Man

My Life With The Saints - James Martin, SJ

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