The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
-
-
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
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 II