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“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“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.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

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