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Love
 


It is not science that redeems man: man is redeemed by love.

 
Encyclical Letter
Spe Salvi

 
 
 
Love
 


God wants nothing other from us than our love, through which we spontaneously learn to enter into his feelings, his thoughts and his will – we learn to live with him and to practice with him that humility of renunciation that belongs to the very essence of love.

 
Homily
St Peter's Basilica
24 December 2006

 
 
 
Love
 


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.

 
Encyclical Letter
On Integral Human Development
In Charity and Truth
'Caritas in Veritate'

 
 
 
Love
 


Love grows through love. Love is “divine” because it comes from God and unites us to God; through this unifying process it makes us a “we” which transcends our divisions and makes us one, until, in the end God, is “all in all” (1 Cor 15:28).

 
Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'

 
 
 
Love
 


Love grows through love. Love is “divine” because it comes from God and unites us to God; through this unifying process it makes us a “we” which transcends our divisions and makes us one, until in the end God is “all in all”.

 
Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'

 
 
 
Love
 


Love is the greatest strength of the spiritual life. God, who is love, creates man out of love and out of love redeems him. The salvation of all human beings, mortally wounded by original sin and burdened by personal sins, consists in being firmly attached to divine love, which was fully revealed to us in Christ crucified and risen.

 
Angelus
20 August 2006

 
 
 
Love
 


On the Cross, it is God Himself Who begs the love of His creature: He is thirsty for the love of every one of us.

 
Message for Lent
2007

 
 
 
Love
 


God is love, and meeting Him is the only answer to the disquiet of our hearts.

 
General Audience
27 February 2008

 

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