"The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God."

-- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.”
“Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.”
“I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.”
“Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.”

Source : 1945 Declaration, 15 Aug. Quoted in Hugh Cortazzi The Japanese Achievement (1990).
“It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.”
“Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.”
“No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.”
“I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.”

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