A Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Pope Benedict XVI
German - Priest
Born: April 16, 1927

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Robert Kiyosaki

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David Platt

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Richard Yates

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Mike Donehey

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Freeman Dyson

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Lee Strobel

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

Mark Twain

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Jon Foreman

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