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“Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.”
― Love and Responsibility
― Love and Responsibility
“It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone, or seated in your shop,…while buying or selling,…or even while cooking.”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“In the words of St. Augustine, “I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“For this reason the Council was not first of all to condemn the errors of the time, but above all to strive calmly to show the strength and beauty of the doctrine of the faith.”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.”
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
― Catechism of the Catholic Church
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