Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHolidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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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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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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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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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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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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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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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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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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