Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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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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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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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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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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