What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIGod made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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