None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIPray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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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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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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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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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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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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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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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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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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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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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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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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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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