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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIPray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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Know what you are talking about.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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.
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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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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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