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The entire edifice of Christian civilization and Christian history was built on the solid fortresses of the contemplative monasteries.

— 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.

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

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.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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