The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILook, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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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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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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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.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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