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1		"The moral life is a spiritual worship."

2		"The Word of God and his Breath are at the origin of the being and life of every creature."

3		"From the beginning until the end of time the whole of God's work is a blessing. From the liturgical poem of the first creation to the canticles of the heavenly Jerusalem, the inspired authors proclaim the plan of salvation as one vast divine blessing."

4		"God who created everything also rules everything….God's power is loving."

5		"The One is the source of every blessing."

6		"Moral existence is a response to the Lord's loving initiative. It is the acknowledgement and homage given to God and a worship of thanksgiving. It is cooperation with the plan God pursues in history."

7		"God calls each one by name. (cf. Isaiah 43:1)"

8		"God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer."

9		"At every time and in every place, God draws close to man."

10		"God is infinitely good and all his works are good."

11		"Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness."

12		"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will."

13		"Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect."

14		"Man is created with free will and is master over his acts."

15		"Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with His creation 'in the image and likeness of God'."

16		"By natural reason man can know God with certanity, on the basis of his works."

17		"Man is by nature and vocation a religious being. Coming from God, going toward God, man lives a fully human life only if he freely lives by his bond with God."

18		"By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship and rebels against divine truth."

19		"The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being….God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence." Vatical Council II, 'Gaudium et spes', 19, 1

20		"The confession of God's oneness, which has its roots in the divine revelation of the Old Covenant, is inseparable from the profession of God's existence and is equally fundamental."

21		"By love, God has revealed himself and given himself to humanity. He has thus provided the definitive, superabundant answer to the questions that man asks himself about the meaning and purpose of his life."

22		"Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and holy God."

23		"By virtue of his soul and his spiritual powers of intellect and will, man is endowed with freedom, an outstanding manifestation of the divine image."

24		"A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them."

25		"Because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures' inmost being: 'In him we live and move and have our being.' (Acts 17:28). In the words of St. Augustine, 'God is 'higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self.' (Confessions 3, 6, 11)"