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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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.’
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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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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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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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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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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