From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHolidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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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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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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.’
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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