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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIGod is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Look, 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.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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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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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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