In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIGod passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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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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Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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