Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
POPE JOHN PAUL IINot all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Another name for peace is development.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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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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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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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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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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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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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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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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