The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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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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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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 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 greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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