Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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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.
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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