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One of my favorite phrases that brings me great comfort: We are not on earth as museum keepers, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope!

— Pope John XXIII

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From the saints I must take the substance, not the accidents of their virtues.

Journal of a Soul (1903)

Human life is sacred... From its very inception it reveals the creating hand of God.

God desires us to follow the examples of the saints by absorbing the vital sap of their virtues and turning it into our own life-blood, adapting it to our own individual capacities and particular circumstances.

Journal of a Soul (1903)

[Peace must be] founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, and put into practice in freedom.

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