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 IIThe Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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