You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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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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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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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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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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