CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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"Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all people have the same nature and the same origin….All are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity."
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"God's very being is love."
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"All religions bear witness to man's essential search for God."
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"God who created everything also rules everything….God's power is loving."
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"Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and holy God."
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"The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being….God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence." Vatical Council II, 'Gaudium et spes', 19, 1
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"The moral life is a spiritual worship."
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"By his reason, man recognizes the voice of God which urges him to do what is good and avoid what is evil. Everyone is obliged to follow this law, which makes itself heard in conscience and is fulfilled in the love of God and of neighbor. Living a moral life bears witness to the dignity of the person."
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"God gave himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine nature." St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1, 24
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"Because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures' inmost being: 'In him we live and move and have our being.' (Acts 17:28). In the words of St. Augustine, 'God is 'higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self.' (Confessions 3, 6, 11)"
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"The One is the source of every blessing."
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"Divine providence consists of the dispositions by which God guides all his creatures with wisdom and love to their ultimate end."
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"God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer."
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"A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them."
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"To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy."
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"By virtue of his soul and his spiritual powers of intellect and will, man is endowed with freedom, an outstanding manifestation of the divine image."
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"We can name God by taking his creatures' perfections as our starting point, 'for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator'. (Wisdom 13:5)"
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"Man is created with free will and is master over his acts."
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"God calls each one by name. (cf. Isaiah 43:1)"
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"When he listens to the message of creation and to the voice of conscience, man can arrive at certainty about the existence of God, the cause and end of everything."
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"God is infinitely good and all his works are good."
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"From the beginning until the end of time the whole of God's work is a blessing. From the liturgical poem of the first creation to the canticles of the heavenly Jerusalem, the inspired authors proclaim the plan of salvation as one vast divine blessing."
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"The Word of God and his Breath are at the origin of the being and life of every creature."
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"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will."
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"The confession of God's oneness, which has its roots in the divine revelation of the Old Covenant, is inseparable from the profession of God's existence and is equally fundamental."
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