I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIs not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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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.
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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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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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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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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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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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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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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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