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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.

Pope John Paul II

Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Caring Effort September
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Confined Culture Truth
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Darkness Tired World
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Hatred Light
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Grace Hands Mother
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Death Dying
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Country Example People Responsibility
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Men Way World
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Nation Past War
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Culture Humans
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Sacred World
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Church Teaching
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Inspiration Tasks
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communion Important People
Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Continuously God Heart Joy Prayer
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Humanity Mosaics Pieces
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Lying Mean School
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Love Men Purity
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Giving Inspiration
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Giving Heart Reading
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Men Sacrifice Self
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Maturity Men Work
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Family Inspiration
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Good Leader Littles
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Beyond Faith Ourselves
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Humanity Men
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Past War

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