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 Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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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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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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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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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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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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