Some short quotes from Pope Benedict XVI:
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"Of ourselves, we cannot come to terms with ourselves. Our I becomes acceptable to us only if it has first become acceptable to another I . We can love ourselves only if we have first been loved by someone else."
"... it is only when life has been accepted and is perceived as accepted that it becomes also acceptable. Man is that strange creature that needs not just physical birth but also appreciation if he is to subsist. If an individual is to accept himself, someone must say to him: 'It is good that you exist' - must say it, not with words, but with the act of the entire being that we call love. For it is the way of love to will the other's existence and, at the same time, to bring that existence forth again."
"We receive our life not only at the moment of birth, but every day from without - from others who somehow pertain to us. Human beings have their selves not only in themselves but also outside of themselves: they live in those who love them and to whom they are 'present.' "
--- All quotes used in Peter Cameron's editorial in the April 2010 edition of Magnificat. All quotes attributed to Pope Benedict's earlier writings.
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