Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHumanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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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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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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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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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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