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Men are waiting; they judge the truth of religion according to its fruitfulness in social life.

— Giorgio La Pira

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Young people are like swallows, they go towards spring.

Bread, and therefore work, is sacred; the house is sacred, one does not touch one with impunity: this is not Marxism, it is the Gospel.

Christianity everything is a dream: the sweetest dream of a God made man for man to become God.

The seasons are not made by the farmer; they come, and he helps them. They all orient themselves towards summer, towards the days of maturation. This is what history does.

Tomorrow you go to the SS. Annunziata and pray that even in future centuries the Archangel Gabriel will always be an announcer of beautiful things.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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