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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More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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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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The 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.’
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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