God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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.’
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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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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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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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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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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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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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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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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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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