Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIGandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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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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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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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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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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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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