Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFaith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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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.’
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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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.
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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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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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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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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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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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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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