Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThis is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Know what you are talking about.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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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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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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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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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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