We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies: Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.


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Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental...
BENEDICT XVI
This unbounded and almost incomprehensible love of God for man shows to what point the human person ...
BENEDICT XVI
To welcome the Redeemer in his life is for man a source of profound joy, a joy that can give peace e...
BENEDICT XVI
The service that may be offered to the faithful and non-Christian spouses who are going through diff...
BENEDICT XVI
These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the trage...
BENEDICT XVI
I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of our concerns the spread of terr...
BENEDICT XVI
These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America...
BENEDICT XVI
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the...
BENEDICT XVI
Just as the life of Jesus, in his obedience and dedication to the Father, is a living parable of the...
BENEDICT XVI
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute ...
DIRK BENEDICT
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT
Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not e...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone i...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. ...
BENEDICT SPINOZA
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap y...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorro...
DIRK BENEDICT
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT
I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with inter...
DIRK BENEDICT
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things...
BENEDICT SPINOZA
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
Desire is the essence of a man.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody.
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
Merck has been extremely good to me over the years,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
[The researcher was warning that] you can't just give this to anybody, ... You have to identify peop...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
They don't mind killing patients,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
They are trying to tell the leadership (about the risks) before they go out and launch this drug to ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
I don't know that I owe them an apology,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
Based on the science, there's every reason to believe that a single dose, multiple doses, whatever, ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI
We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seam...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any f...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our A...
BENEDICT ARNOLD
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a d...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH