Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
POPE JOHN PAUL IINot all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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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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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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