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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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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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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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