Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know…

Pope Benedict XVI
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Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other. ✨ Pope Benedict XVI (2011). Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages, p.23, Fortress Press
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