Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILet science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Not 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.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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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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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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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.
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