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To stand tall, you need to know how to kneel in prayer.

— Oreste Benzi

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The collapse of the parameters for accepting oneself as male in today's society completes the picture of factors that create conditions favourable to homosexuality.

Prostitution comes from the heart, but it is also from the heart that good can begin.

The important thing is to work so that, from childhood, people can nurture the infinite love that is present within each of us.

Men must understand that if they go to prostitutes, they are contributing to the enslavement of these girls and to the growth of criminal organisations.

Acquired homosexuals are the effeminate men mentioned in Scripture who are not allowed to enter the kingdom of heaven. Acquired homosexuality can be overcome and, being a vice, must be removed at all costs.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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