Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"God's very being is love."
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"Question the beauty of the earth, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air diffusing itself, question the beauty of the sky….question all these realities. All respond: 'See, we are beautiful.' Their beauty is a profession. These beauties are subject to change. Who made them if not the Beautiful One who is not subject to change? St. Augustine, Sermo 241, 2
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"By natural reason man can know God with certanity, on the basis of his works."
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"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will."
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"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."
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"A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them."
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"When he listens to the message of creation and to the voice of conscience, man can arrive at certainty about the existence of God, the cause and end of everything."
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"Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity with His creation 'in the image and likeness of God'."
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"We can name God by taking his creatures' perfections as our starting point, 'for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator'. (Wisdom 13:5)"
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"Man is created with free will and is master over his acts."
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"At every time and in every place, God draws close to man."
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"God calls each one by name. (cf. Isaiah 43:1)"
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"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."
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"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)"
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"Divine providence consists of the dispositions by which God guides all his creatures with wisdom and love to their ultimate end."
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"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."
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"God who created everything also rules everything….God's power is loving."
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"Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all people have the same nature and the same origin….All are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity."
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"All religions bear witness to man's essential search for God."
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"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."
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"Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness."
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