Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITrue 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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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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Another name for peace is development.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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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.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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