[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Know what you are talking about.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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