What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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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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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 most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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