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.’
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIf you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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This 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.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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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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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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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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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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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 made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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