The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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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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[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 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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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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