The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
POPE JOHN PAUL IITruth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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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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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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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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