True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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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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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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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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