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Love
 


Love is the essence of Christianity, which makes the believer and the Christian community a leaven of hope and peace in every environment and especially attentive to the needs of the poor and needy.

 
Homily; Pastoral Visit
Diocese of Velletri-Segni
St Clement's Square
23 September 2007

 
 
 
Love
 


Love is the only light that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working.

 
Lenten Message
15 October 2012

 
 
 
Love
 


Love is the only force capable of changing the heart of the human person and of all humanity, by making fruitful the relations between men and women, between rich and poor, between cultures and civilizations.

 
Message for
22nd World Youth Day
Palm Sunday
1 April 2007

 
 
 
Love
 


“We know and believe the love God has for us”. Yes, man can believe in love. Let us bear witness to our faith in such a way that it shines forth as the power of love, “so that the world may believe” (Jn 17:21).

 
Homily at Vespers
Cathedral of Regensburg
12 September 2006

 
 
 
Love
 


Love of God and love of neighbor are inseparable, they form a single commandment. But both live from love of God who has loved us first.

 
Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'

 
 
 
Love
 


Look into your own heart. Think of all the love that your heart was made to receive, and all the love it is meant to give. After all, we were made for love. This is what the Bible means when it says that we are made in the image and likeliness of God: we were made to know the God of love, the God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and to find our supreme fulfillment in that divine love that knows no beginning or end.

 
Address
Westminster Cathedral
London, England
19 September 2010

 
 
 
Love
 


There is only one thing which lasts: the love of Jesus Christ personally for each one of you. Search for him, know him and love him, and he will set you free from slavery to the glittering but superficial existence frequently proposed by today’s society. Put aside what is worthless and learn of your own dignity as children of God.

 
Homily
Bellahouston Park
Glasgow, Scotland
16 September 2010

 
 
 
Love
 


Christian love is particularly demanding because it springs from Christ's total love for us: that love that claims us, welcomes us, embraces us, sustains us, to the point of tormenting us since it forces each one to no longer live for himself, closed into his own selfishness, but for him "who for their sake died and was raised" (2 Cor 5: 15).

 
General Audience
Paul VI Audience Hall
26 November 2008

 

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