If there is no humility, love remains blocked.
Interpretation
Humility is essential for love to flourish; without it, love cannot truly exist.
Pope Francis emphasizes that humility is a fundamental quality necessary for genuine love to develop and thrive. When humility is absent, the ability to connect, empathize, and truly express love towards others is hindered, creating barriers that prevent sincere relationships from forming.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a relationship workshop to highlight the importance of humility in fostering love.
We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.
I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.
It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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