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Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
Jason Evert
published: 2014, read: 5/5/25
300 pages, genre: Biography
rating: 7/10, normalized: 6.667/10
-0.23σ worse than average
-0.026σ or -0.017/10 worse than average in Biography genre
-1.406σ or -0.534/10 worse than average recommended by Emma
Recommended by: Emma
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Tell me what you love and I will tell you who you are
True prayer is waiting for God to come how and when He wants to.
The Holy Father made the challenge realistic, reminding tyoung people that the grace to be pure is not something that arises from a person’s willpower. When demands are placed upon a person, he admitted that it is natural to view them as constraints: “Confronted with such demands, one has to say to oneself frankly, ‘they are beyond my capacity.’ But to say this does not mean that they are restrictive. It means: I appeal to something more than my capacity”
The cause of poverty is not the poor.
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