If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILimitation 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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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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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 Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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