True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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