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Christ: he tells us who man truly is and what a man must do in order to be truly human. He shows us the way, and this way is the truth. He himself is both the way and the truth, and therefore he is also the life which all of us are seeking. He also shows us the way beyond death; only someone able to do this is a true teacher of life.
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Encyclical Letter
SPE SALVI
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Without love, even the most important activities lose their value and give no joy. Without a profound meaning, all our activities are reduced to sterile and unorganized activism. And who, if not Jesus Christ, gives us Love and Truth?
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Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
18 July 2010
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In our prayer we should look at how often in the events of our lives the Lord has protected us, guided us, and helped us, and we should praise him for what he has done for us.
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
12 October 2011
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It is the primacy of God which we must, first and foremost, restore in our world and our lives, because it is this primacy which allows us to rediscover the truth of who we are; and it is in knowing and following the will of God that we discover our own good.
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Homily
Ancona, Italy
11 September 2011
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'Where God is, there lies the future'. What this means is that we must restore God to our horizon, the God Who is so often absent but of Whom we have such great need.
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Address to the German People
Radio Programme
"Wort zum Sontag"
17 September 2011
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What must I do in order not to fall, not to squander my life in meaninglessness? This is precisely the question which every man and woman must ask and one which remains valid at every moment of one’s life. How much darkness surrounds this question in our own day! We are constantly reminded of the words of Jesus, who felt compassion for the crowds because they were like a flock without a shepherd. Lord, have mercy on us too! Show us the way! From the Gospel we know this much: he is himself the way. Living with Christ, following him – this means finding the right way, so that our lives can be meaningful and so that one day we might say: “Yes, it was good to have lived”.
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Homily
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
St Peter's Square
11 June 2010
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Man knows that, by himself, he cannot respond to his own fundamental need to understand. However much he is deluded and still deludes himself that he is self-sufficient, he experiences his own insufficiency. He needs to open himself to something more, to something or to someone that can give him what he lacks; he must come out of himself towards the One who is able to fill the breadth and depth of his desire.
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
11 May 2011
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He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life” (Jn 12:25). In other words, the one who wants to have his life for himself, living only for himself, keeping everything to himself and exploiting all its possibilities – is actually the one who loses his life. Life becomes boring and empty. Only by self-abandonment, only by the disinterested gift of the “I” in favor of the “you”, only in the “yes” to the greater life, the life of God, does our life also become broad and great.
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Homily
Palm Sunday
St Peter's Square
5 April 2009
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