I think this is poignant, so I'm sharing. "Their" refers to children. This is taken from Three To Get Married by Fulton Sheen. God bless that man!
"The fourth mystery is their contribution to the well-being of the nation. Here, too, is the root of democracy, for it is in the family that a person is valued not for what he is worth, nor for what he can do, but primarily for what he is. His status, his position, is guaranteed by the very fact of being alive. The children who are dumb or blind, sons who were maimed in war, are all loved because of themselves and their intrinsic worth as gifts of God, and not because of what they know, or what they earn, or because of the class to which they belong. This reverence of personality in the family is the social principle upon which the wider life of the community depends, for the State exists for the person, not he person for the State."
Let us (and all people and nations) not forget that! Let us all remember this truth!
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One of my favorite books of all time! This is a wonderful excerpt. The most read chapter of my copy is "Dark night of the body." I think every married couple in the world should have a copy of that chapter... there would be fewer divorces. Yes, thank God for Fulton Sheen!
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