The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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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 vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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