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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

Pope John Paul II

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 II

Art Talent Waste
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Excess Levels People
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Calculate Catholic Complaining Love Simply
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Horizon Today
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Beloved Brother Way
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Christ Looks May
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Desire Men Women
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
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Husband Life Love
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Christian Suffering
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Catholic Coincidence Design
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Evil Jesus Prayer
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Church Teaching
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Challenges Inspire Levels
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

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