| Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla) [wiadomość #454] |
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john_paul_ii Wiadomości: 1 Dołączył(a): kwiecień 2005 |
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"The unforgiveable sins this earth must confront and overcome are
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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expanse of
soul.
354. Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and
retreats.
Fever has its cold and hot fits; and the cold proves as well as the hot the
greatness of the fire of fever.
The discoveries of men from age to age turn out the same. The kindness and
the malice of the world in general are the same. Plerumque gratae
principibus vices.[47]
355. Continuous eloquence wearies.
Princes and kings sometimes play. They are not always on their thrones. They
weary there. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in
everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Nature acts by progress, itus et reditus. It goes and returns, then advances
further, then twice as much backwards, then more forward than ever, etc.
The tide of the sea behaves in the same manner; and so, apparently, does the
sun in its course.
356. The nourishment of the body is little by little. Fullness of
nourishment and smallness of substance.
357. When we would pursue virtues to their extremes on either side, vices
present themselves, which insinuate themselves insensibly there, in their
insensible journey towards the infinitely little; and vices present
themselves in a crowd towards the infinitely great, so that we lose
ourselves in them and no longer see virtues. We find fault with perfection
itself.
358. Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he
who would act the angel acts the brute.
359. We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the
balancing of
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