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"A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all."

"In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa."

"However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate."

"John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable."

"Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground."

"In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace."

"The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity."

"The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society."
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