The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve o…

Pope Benedict XVI
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The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak. ✨ Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, p.268, Image
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